just had this problem when installing 12.04.2 LTS on a macbook pro 5.5 i could use the default image, but at the grub boot parameters i had to add "nomodeset" and remove the "gfxmode $linux_gfx_mode". for debugging purposes i removed "quiet" and "splash" earlier to see where it hangs...
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