Can you try passing the "irqpoll" option to the kernel and see if that helps? If it does help and you're able to boot, can you supply "sudo lspci -vvnn", "dmesg", "lsmod" and "sudo dmidecode" output so we can try to debug why this is happening in the first place?
Cheers, Kyle ** Changed in: linux-source-2.6.20 (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Kyle McMartin Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info -- Feisty hangs during boot https://launchpad.net/bugs/89550 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs