Xubuntu not booting

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I had been using Xubuntu as my main OS for a few months, and then AoC was released so my hand was forced to install a new Windows partition.

I decided to take the opportunity for a bit of a clean up, so backed up all my data and reformatted the HDD in to three partitions:
#1 - Vista NTFS
#2 - Main (All my data, music, games etc) NTFS
#3 - Xubuntu Ext3

All is working fine, with the exception of a strange problem I seem to be getting when I try and boot Xubuntu sometimes. When it starts to boot it gets to the initial loading bar screen and just stays on it for eternity, then shuts down. If I try and boot it in recovery mode it generally boots in to the OS fine. Vista is working as intended.

Does anybody have any ideas what could be causing it? I went in to detail about my partition set up as I assume it is some kind of HDD/Partitioning error, but not sure how to investigate further.
 
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When you're at grub try editing the Xubuntu line and removing the quiet and splash parameters, so that you can see what is being written to the message buffer. Or you could hit F1 and it should display these messages too. Should hopefully shed some light on what's happening under the hood to help diagnose the issue.
 
Right, well I just restarted and used the recovery console to find out where it was hanging. The error it hangs on is:

Code: 
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
/build/buildd/linux-2.6.24/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID CORE
ata4.00: qc timeout (cmd 0x27)
ata4.00: failed to read native max address (err_mask=0x4)

The system then goes in to what seems an endless loop trying to reset 'EH' or something similiar.
 
Seems to be a bug. Saw that Bug #123617 covers pretty much exactly what you're getting. Some people in the thread for that bug say that passing the parameter irqpoll during boot up works around the problem.

You could try it out. Do like you did to remove the splash and silent parameters and add irqpoll at the same time. If it does make a difference then you can edit menu.lst so that you don't have to keep adding it yourself.
 
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