Comment 2 for bug 288105

I am experiencing the same situation on an HP Pavillion notebook.
I updated from kubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 shortly before 8.10 was released and have applied all updates since.

It is worth noting that the boot process does not *always* hag at the *same* points. I can always get the system up, eventually by repeatedly pressing keys such as enter, ctrl and/or alt.

Screen output nearly always halts on things concerning drives ([S]ATA, cdrom, also sata connections that are actually not used by any existing devices).