The dapper live-CD still hangs the system during startup. I haven't tried a prerelease edgy live-CD, but haven't seen anything to suggest that the problem's fixed there.
-- hangs on "starting hotplug subsystems" when pci video is on https://launchpad.net/bugs/26814 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
