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I had the same behaviour with my Lenovo Ideapad Y560p running 11.10. First install went fine but after restarting it didn't boot the GUI.

The issue was to do with the graphics driver. In the kern.log file I found the message "failed to load module "fglrx"". Which is the ATI Catalyst driver for linux.

So I did a "sudo apt-get install fglrx" . It installed the driver and now it boots up every time.

Edit: There is a custom Oneiric ISO with EMGD and all the needed modifications. You might want to try that first. http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11356431&postcount=4605

You've been trying to follow older howtos, none of which claim to be a solution for Ubuntu 11.10. Look closely, the EMGD PPA only claims support upto Natty, aka Ubuntu 11.04. The second guide suggests installing the old PSB driver, which worked starting from 9.04 through 11.10, thanks the community efforts, but has become impractical to support without Intel's contribution. There simply aren't any PSB packages for Oneiric.

People like GMA500 very much, if only Intel would provide a working Linux driver, open or closed, same as for its other chipsets.

Some claimed to have gotten 11.10 partially working with gma500:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11378988&postcount=4643

1. boot from standard install cd in live mode (F6) with "poulsbo.asd=1 psb_gfx.asd=1" added to kernel string
2. select install ubuntu from livecd
3. boot selecting unity-2d and install updates
4. make unity-2d default interface

sudo sed -i 's/user-session=ubuntu/user-session=ubuntu-2d/g' /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

5. perform emgd install and reboot

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gma500/emgd-1.8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xorg-emgd emgd-dkms
sudo emgd-xorg-conf

6. still won't boot so blacklist other modules and disable plymouth

sudo echo "# EMGD" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
sudo echo "blacklist psb_gfx" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
sudo echo "blacklist poulsbo" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
sudo echo "emgd" >> /etc/modules
sudo mv /etc/init/plymouth.conf /etc/init/plymouth.conf.disabled

now it works, sort of, here are my problems:

1. LibreOffice is way too slow, especially Calc
2. Playing videos from youtube, etc.. is impossible, sound sync is lost immediately
3. General performance of the system is kind-of slow, but within expected netbook range (I used have an older AspireOne, and it was a little better than 1101HA after the RAM upgrade)