Comment 18 for bug 21922

(In reply to comment #14)
> (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.
>

Yes, that pause is hardware detection happening. We plan to bring up the
progress meter earlier in the future, but not for 5.10.

You can avoid the pause by disabling your SCSI controller if you aren't using it.