Comment 14 for bug 21922

(In reply to comment #8)
> This should be fixed now with initramfs-tools 0.27. Once you have that
> installed, please do:
>
> dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.12-8-686-smp

The problem is now gone, and the system boots fine. Although I too have a long
pause which is probably related to searching for scsi disk which I do not have
in my system.