Comment 138 for bug 285392

I have a solution for this bug, not a good one though.

I had two harddisks. One connected on SATA and hosting my Ubuntu, the other connected on IDE and hosting a windows os. The windows disk was recently producing bad vibrations (literally), so I had to remove it to keep my sanity. And tata! problem gone. Now my Ubuntu boots lightning fast without these softreset failed messages. By the way, I also have a DVD Writer on the same IDE cable which is STILL connected. That doesn't create any trouble though. It was the IDE hdd with windows on it that caused the trouble. This is not really a solution, but in case you really want to go back to a fast Ubuntu boot, you may have to sacrifice that other disk you have.