Comment 83 for bug 212271

Hi kai,

You have to hit the ESC key a lot sooner, just after your BIOS finished and just before the kernel is loaded into memory. You only have 3 seconds to interrupt the boot process.

If all else fails: boot with the live CD, you will see a drive labeled 'disk' on your Desktop.
So far so good.
If this worked, open a terminal (applications->accessories) and type: sudo su
Now you're root.

type:
echo "#these lines can be removed in the official hardy release" >>/media/disk/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
echo blacklist saa7134 >>/media/disk/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
echo blacklist saa7134_dvb >>/media/disk/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

Now you can shutdown, remove the live CD and reboot and all should work.