First boot of breezy fails (installed as client of vmware)

Installing Collony 3 and 4 both fail on their first boot. I installed breezy as
a client of VmWare 5.0.0 build-13124.
VMWare itself is running on a Pentium M in an IBM Thinkpad (T42p). The hosting
notebook is running Ubuntu Hoary.

At the end of the first installation step (before rebooting), there is a dialog
saying it will reboot the computer and a progress bar. The progress bar stops at
around 80% and I have to reset the computer (which is really the vmware session)
to really reboot.

I use a typical VMWare installation, and other Linux 2.6 based host. I make the
session recognize the downloaded breezy iso image as its cd drive.

I include the output of 'lscpi' and 'lspci -n' below as run on the hosting
notebook. I am not sure how to run it from within the VMWare session, because
'lscpi' does not seem to be available (Neither during installation when using
CTRL-F2 to drop to a shell, nor during the first boot, when thrown in busybox
automatically). I do include the output of /cat/proc/modules from the firstboot
though.

lspci (run on the hosting notebook, not inside the vmware session):
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M)
USB UHCI Controller #1
(rev 01)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M)
USB UHCI Controller #2
(rev 01)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M)
USB UHCI Controller #3
(rev 01)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB 2.0 EHCI
Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 81)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DBM LPC Interface Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DBM (ICH4) Ultra ATA Storage
Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus
Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem
Controller (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M10 NT [FireGL
Mobility T2] (rev 80)
0000:02:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4520 PC card Cardbus
Controller (rev 01)
0000:02:00.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4520 PC card Cardbus
Controller (rev 01)
0000:02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82540EP Gigabit Ethernet
Controller (Mobile) (rev 03)
0000:02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)

lspci -n (again from the hosting notebook):
0000:00:00.0 0600: 8086:3340 (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 0604: 8086:3341 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:24c2 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:24c4 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:24c7 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:24cd (rev 01)
0000:00:1e.0 0604: 8086:2448 (rev 81)
0000:00:1f.0 0601: 8086:24cc (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.1 0101: 8086:24ca (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.3 0c05: 8086:24c3 (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.5 0401: 8086:24c5 (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.6 0703: 8086:24c6 (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 0300: 1002:4e54 (rev 80)
0000:02:00.0 0607: 104c:ac46 (rev 01)
0000:02:00.1 0607: 104c:ac46 (rev 01)
0000:02:01.0 0200: 8086:101e (rev 03)
0000:02:02.0 0280: 8086:4220 (rev 05)