As found in the Viglen MPC-L: CrunchBang Linux 10 (i386).

Important! Specify these two options to the kernel at boot (tab to edit) on installation:

• cdrom-detect/try-usb=true (presuming you are installing from USB key, may already be there)
• pci=noacpi

Once you have installed, on first boot you should tab edit the grub line again and put in pci=noacpi, then make this permanent by sudo’ing to root, and adding

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=”pci=noacpi”

to /etc/default/grub, then run update-grub.

You might also want to disable X: update-rc.d gdm remove.

Also see here for details on installing ubuntu.