For me, this was the problem I had. Just installed Ubuntu 8.10 - the Intrepid Ibex on a AMD64. There was a big delay on booting from bios to os as well. Turned out I had a jumper on the extra data drives I had in the system, (Western Digital), on the master w/slave jumpers. Diagram showed for single or master it should be all NO jumbers, blank. It works and boots great now.
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