Ubuntu 11.10 Install freeze at start up | Geforce GTX 570 | It's not your SDD [SOLVED]

I recently bought a NVIDIA GTX 570 (Palit OC version ) and a SSD (OCZ agility III), I also have been updating my Ubuntu instance since 10.04 up to 11.10...

Everything worked perfectly fine - but in the heat of the moment I thought: Come on ... let's do this - clean install!. I installed the GTX 570, the SDD (enable AHCI in your Bios, btw), downloaded Ubuntu 11.10 (amd64, DVD iso) and fired it up. Booting - choose "Install Ubuntu" - more booting - freeze. Last message: "ata6 [SATA link down]. Darn, SSD problems?!

Umm yaaa, 24 hrs later, after reading like a thousand manuals and - as so often - really really useless forum topics (one guy actually "solved" his SSD problem through disconnecting it while booting and then, reconnecting it...) however I found a hint.

When booting the live cd you can set a couple of kernel boot parameters like quiet splash ... and so on. I really couldn't get to the bottom of the problem because the boot screen wouldn't "scroll" and, as this is a live cd, there's really no logging. So the first thing you would like to do is, boot the live cd, choose the language and then hit F6 Other options

F6 Other options
Press escape and remove "quiet splash"

Fine, now I could scroll the boot screen output with SHIFT+PgUp or PgDown, that's when I saw the [back-trace] message coming from nouveau. Okay, it's a g-card driver problem! To keep it short, boot again as mentioned before and:

F6 Other options
Select nomodeset (space key)
Press escape and add the following parameter to the boot options
xforcevesa
Remove quiet and splash

Press enter to boot and everything should be fine. Hope this helps.

Update: Actually you don't need the xforcevesa option, but it doesn't hurt anyway. I also found a nice tutorial on kernel boot paramters, sadly in german only: http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/booten