Same happened to me on a satellite S1800-700 when upgrading from 6.06 to 8.04 with update-manager. I could not start with Live CD on this machine also. I could solve it adding "NoDDC" on installed version.
Same happened to me on a satellite S1800-700 when upgrading from 6.06 to 8.04 with update-manager.
I could not start with Live CD on this machine also.
I could solve it adding "NoDDC" on installed version.