On Tuesday December 11 2007 12:11:54 Andrew Zbikowski wrote:
> For older hardware you might have better luck with the alternative CD,
> depending on how old it is.
>
> You could also try turning of acpi. When the installer menu comes up,
> press Esc. You will get a message about leaving the graphical menu.
> Click OK. You'll get a boot: prompt.
> Enter live acpi=off so your boot prompt looks like
> boot: live acpi=off
>
>
>
> The Ubuntu installer help also has some other suggestions (Press F1
> when the installer boot menu appears):
> - If you experience lockups or other hardware failures, disable buggy
> APIC interrupt routing: noapic nolapic
> boot: live noapic nolapic
>
> - Disable ACPI for  PCI maps (handy for some HP servers and Via-based
> machines): pci-noacpi
> boot: live pci-noacpi

Turning off acpi did it, thanks Andrew!

-p.