Comment 3 for bug 942907

kklimonda in #ubuntu-server and dariti on staff at Linode suggest that I *could* install a custom kernel and get more debugging information out of the system as it tries to initialize, by setting the " init=/sbin/init --verbose " option for GRUB. Installing a custom kernel on a non-operational OS is beyond what I want to work on at this hour, however, I would again be happy to give access to the machine to an interested party who would like to attempt this, if the situation is of interest.