you should boot in verbose mode to know what is going wrong. to do so, hit the "e" key to edit the grub line and remove the words "quiet" and "splash" from the line where they both appear.
this modification will affect your boot only once. you should be able to get more info on what delays the boot. -- IDE cdrom not recognized after upgrade from Ubuntu 6.10 to 7.04 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/109706 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
