it was a bug for a period during breezy's development; did you originally install this machine from a development release of breezy (or maybe dapper?)
it's been long-since fixed -- "Loading hardware drivers" hangs on boot https://launchpad.net/bugs/60104 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
