I got it to fail again; It looks like IOMMU was already set in the BIOS, as far as I can see...
After the above stall completes, we end up in initramfs, with the following message: ATA_ID[4112] main: HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed for /dev/.tmp-8-16 -- Ubuntu often stops when starting up https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/172563 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs