I had identical symptoms on a Dell Dimension 2350 - slow boot, no display. I disabled usplash by removing quiet splash from the boot options, and the boot sped up tremendously.
It's an intel architecture, so it may be a different bug - but since the symptoms are the same I thought I post them here. Details: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim2350/specs.htm#1101572 -- no boot splash and very slow booting https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/61711 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs