According to Intel, this 40GB SSD is "aimed for value netbooks and dual-drive desktop PCs as a 'boot drive' to accelerate start up times, the opening of files and overall system performance".

In Ubuntu 6.10, which was released several years ago, Canonical introduced a new event-based boot daemon called Upstart to replace the traditional System-V init.

Before the days of grub2 in Ubuntu 9.10 and above, cleaning up your boot menu was easy, requiring nothing more than editing the menu.lst file, but the new boot manager doesn't work the same way.

I have been installing Ubuntu using a bootable USB key and would like to know how what the kernel parameters would be to get Ubuntu to use the kickstart file locally.