Comment 10 for bug 490265

I just did some experiments. Using the alternate installation iso I utilized the expert mode and executed all installation steps just to the point before partition detection. I then replaced all the tools doing the partitioning (partman and so on) by dummies. To continue I had to create an fstab myself - worked fine. The rest of the installation was no problem.

Booting Ubuntu works, login also. But after some minutes of working I get the same freeze as I experienced before. Symptoms: no mouse movement possible, no keyboard change to a terminal session. The drive led is constantly burning, but there are no noises of moving heads.

Booting to an xterm session works without problems, tried this for more than 30 minutes.

Anything I can provide to help? I am a little bit disappointed, that my problem seems not worth working on it. Ubuntu is not usable for me now. I found rare bug reports in the net reporting the same problem.

Kind regards

Dirk