Comment 6 for bug 64342

Agreed to Colin Watsan + SOLVED.

DIAGNOSIS: selecting an older kernel was indeed working - but only every now and then. Tip: A "Starting ..." will appear when the boot will work and a void disc with a simple cursor "_" on the screen when fails.

SOLUTION (linux way):
- Upgraded BIOS of my Gigabyte board. Was: GA-MA786M-S2H F3 (Version was F3), downloaded from gigabyte version F10 and used the Q-FLASH tool (BIOS menu: F8). This can be done from DOS with the bios exe.

HOWTO without DOS:
NOTE that the Q-FLASH Bios tool option will requiere the extracted bios file on the first boot medium. Use a USB stick.

TIP1: If you do not have a bootable floppy, as me, use a bootable USB Stick. One way to make one bootable: use the ubuntu "System/Administrator/USB Startup Disk Creator" tool to extract the ubuntu*.iso on it. This creates a liveUSB drive which is bootable.

TIP2: Gigabyte has only .exe files as a download option. These are self-extracting windows executables. To extract the file use a windows machine and run it to extract it (should work with wine too). Extract them on the USB stick (or simpler a bootable floppy) and go on with the Q-FLASH option of the BIOS.

TIP3: In the BIOS Setting place the "USB-FDD" as the first boot device. Also in the boot hdd priority.

TIP4: Use "Del" to enter the BIOS menu. It is the "Entf" key for germans.