[ale] Boot failed

[jb at sourceillustrated.com (John Wells)]

John Wells said:
> Even after reinstalling Ubuntu to the drive, I still get "Boot failed",
> but I can also still boot up in rescue mode and mount the partitions
> with no problems.
>
> Is this the sign of a failing drive?

The interesting thing, to, is that I swapped drives and tried to reinstall
and *still* received the same error. Starting to think it might be a
motherboard problem instead...any thoughts?

Thanks!
John