Cannot boot installer on new HP Pavilion DM3

I just purchased an HP Pavilion dm3 (the model based on the AMD Neo X2 L335 CPU) and I can't boot the latest 2009.08 installer, it locks up during the kernel loading process. I presume I would need to add some esoteric kernel parameters on the kernel line in grub (ie. noapic) but I have no idea which one. I've successfully installed Ubuntu 9.10 on it so I know this thing will run Linux. Thanks in advance.

esauve wrote:I just purchased an HP Pavilion dm3 (the model based on the AMD Neo X2 L335 CPU) and I can't boot the latest 2009.08 installer, it locks up during the kernel loading process. I presume I would need to add some esoteric kernel parameters on the kernel line in grub (ie. noapic) but I have no idea which one. I've successfully installed Ubuntu 9.10 on it so I know this thing will run Linux. Thanks in advance.
I have the same problem. I first installed Ubuntu 10.10 on it to test linux. Now I am trying to install Arch.
I am using the 2010.05 installer. It hangs when it says: "Setting Consoles to UTF-8 mode".
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