Ubuntu 12.10 completely fails to install on Asus Eee pc X101CH

[Christopher Barrington-Leigh]

I installed Ubuntu 12.10 desktop x86 onto the brand new machine that I'm writing this from (fresh install). It went through its install, said it was finished, offered to reboot. I accepted. Now, it boots, passes through Grub, and then gives a screen that looks like the attached images.

From there, I cannot reach a terminal with ctrl-alt-Fkey.
But if I press the powr button, it does initiate a shtdown.

So I tried installig 12.04, and that worked well. I'm writing this from 12.04, so attached data reflects the right hardware but not the problem OS.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.156.14.11
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-32.51-generic-pae 3.2.30
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-32-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu14
Aptdaemon:

Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 26 10:35:48 2012
GsettingsChanges:
 com.ubuntu.update-manager first-run false
 com.ubuntu.update-manager launch-time 1351088983
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120817.3)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
Symptom: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Christopher Barrington-Leigh, thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Quantal reached EOL on May 16, 2014.
See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Is this an issue in a supported release? If so, could you please execute the following command, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:
apport-collect 1071776

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for Ubuntu because there has been no activity for 60 days.]