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I have an HP Pavilion ZE4900. It's old, but I have previously seen people successfully running Ubuntu on the same machine. I used the Windows installer (Wubi), and when I reboot and select Ubuntu I see this "kernel panic" then it doesn't progress.

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Please give more information as to what release of Ubuntu you are installing. A picture (or more details) of what's on the screen when it panics would help. Please edit your question and then comment when done. –  bcbc Mar 7 '13 at 5:44
Kernel panic is just the name for, well, a kernel panic. Linux (the kernel) had some issue and crashed. So no surprise it doesn't progress, that's expected. Without any more information, it is not possible to diagnose the issue, as kernel panics can be due to almost anything, including bad memory, wrong boot parameters, unsupported hardware, kernel bugs... If you can, please provide the error message. There should be some lines before the kernel panic explaining it. There may even be some information on the kernel panic line itself, such as "Kernel panic: attempted to kill init!". –  njsg Mar 7 '13 at 11:12
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