Comment 29 for bug 89892

After flashing the laptop BIOS to 2.41 I was able to successfully boot into the 7.10 live cd, boot into the ubuntu 8.04 live cd, and boot and install xubuntu 8.04. Once installed, I haven't had any issue booting off of the hard drive. It appears the BIOS update dramatically reduces the severity of this issue. I haven't tested extensively enough to say that it solves the problem, but being able to boot into and install 8.04 is a significant improvement.