Looks like you are having the same problem as in bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/casper/+bug/107516
My thinkpad R51e also crawls to a halt on acpi and hal during boot (fresh feisty install). Looks like it is a bug in battery module. It takes 1 min to load battery.ko and 20sec for ibm_acpi. After I blacklisted them my system boots as fast as on edgy. -- Extremely slow ACPI on Thinkpad R51e https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/107826 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
