Comment 31 for bug 1003297

I searched quite a while on how to solve the issue with recent ubuntu versions (e.g. in my case Ubuntu 16.04 LTS) after I have upgraded my processor from an older Athlon II X2 270 to an FX-8320E. The bug was not present before, but as I found in some other posts only materializes with an AM3+ processor.

Here is how to get rid of the bug:
enter these two commands in a terminal:

echo "options forcedeth msi=0 msix=0" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/forcedeth_options.conf
sudo update-initramfs -u

then reboot your machine (that will be the last time it crashes during reboot :).

This will tell the kernel to load the module "forcedeth" (the driver for the ethernet part of nvidia’s nForce chipset on my AsRock N68C-FX GS board) with the given options already at boot time.