I am experiencing the exact same problem when booting with splash on my amd64 box.
If I remove splash no problem otherwise it freezes with blinking caps lock light. Was working fine on edgy prior to upgrade. -- Feisty crashes after grub if usplash enabled (amd64) https://launchpad.net/bugs/86666 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs