[mdlug] Laptop woes - Knoppix boots but Ubuntu doesn't?

[Jeff Hanson]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Ingles, Raymond
<Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com> wrote:
>  So, something in the hardware has apparently failed in such a way that
> Ubuntu won't boot but Knoppix will. Very strange. Anyone seen anything
> like that? I'm going to try the Ubuntu "alternate install", which might
> let me actually see the kernel messages on boot. I'm also going to try
> some other distros, like OpenSUSE or Fedora. It'd be nice to resurrect
> this thing.

If it didn't break because of an update then run a RAM test.