Hard to know.
Was it spitting out any error messages?
Was it giving you a Kernel Panic (KP is the standard abbreviation for that)?
Was it just hanging?
Give us the symptons, and if no one can help you here, try the forums of whichever distributions you were using. If no one can figure it out I'm sure the developers of the various distributions would be interested so that they can fix it.
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