One of my systems also has this problem: it hangs at Loading Hardware Drivers for a few minutes, and then it continues until Starting Enterprise Volume Management.
I didn't notice these problems in Breezy. lspci output: 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333] 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333 AGP] 0000:00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA 2164W [Millennium II] 0000:00:06.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c595 100BaseTX [Vortex] 0000:00:07.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50) 0000:00:07.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50) 0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 51) 0000:00:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 46) 0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 PCI to ISA Bridge 0000:00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 0000:00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1b) 0000:00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1b) 0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 10) lsusb output: Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0ace:1201 ZyDAS 802.11b WiFi Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 This bug may be related to bug #32597. -- While booting, fails to load hardware drivers https://launchpad.net/bugs/47462 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs