Thought I had the same thing here, AMD, upgrade from dapper.  Slow boot
from grub, I see the usplash initially, but then it goes to blinking
cursor, hard drive light *blinks* furiously.  Tried a 'noquiet'
'nosplash' suggested above, but it does the same thing (HD starts
blinking, screen sits for at least 3 minutes) when loading my USB
drivers).  This happens even without my mouse plugged in.  After more
searching, I found bug #68888 and bug #67299 which seemed to have
similar symptoms.  Oddly enough, the upgrade created an ARRAY entry in
my /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf even though I don't use any software RAID.
After much trial and tribulation, this got my system back on track:

1) remove the ARRAY entry in /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf
2) run 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure mdadm, answer the questions, defaulting to no 
since I don't use software RAID.  This will update the initramfs for the kernel
3) reboot

Now my boot time is back to normal!

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no boot splash and very slow booting
https://launchpad.net/bugs/61711

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