This morning I booted kernel 2.6.35-25 in Maverick and pressed the Escape key 4 times (varies, see above) to continue the boot. I waited approximately 20 to 30 seconds after each "hang" before pressing Escape again. Here is the interesting part of the dmesg for this boot attempt:
[ 4.342743] hub 1-3.4.1:1.0: USB hub found [ 4.342852] hub 1-3.4.1:1.0: 4 ports detected [ 4.428607] usb 1-3.4.4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8 [ 10.265435] REISERFS (device sda1): replayed 643 transactions in 7 seconds [ 10.265787] REISERFS (device sda1): Using r5 hash to sort names [ 11.648925] udev[438]: starting version 163 [ 38.301359] Adding 7999484k swap on /dev/sda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:7999484k [ 127.667142] lp: driver loaded but no devices found [ 127.685693] input: Wacom Intuos3 6x8 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.0/usb4/4-4/4-4:1.0/input/input5 [ 127.688164] usbcore: registered new interface driver wacom -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/625395 Title: [Maverick] ~30s boot pause -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs