Soft lockup after upgrade - cannot install from live CD
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I dual-boot MacIntel Core 2 duo. nVidia graphics.
Ran upgrade from ubuntu 13.10 to 14.04 (64 bit). On restart ran into
{numbers} Bug: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [swapper/0:1]
Tried loading earlier kernel: same problem
Tried re-installing ubuntu from a liveCD that has worked in the past:
version 13.04. Same problem.
Tried…