Was able to get it to boot by adding the acpi=off flag. Looks like acpi broke at some point for this laptop? Also got a little more info at a different hang point:
[ 15.766383] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled [ 15.780084] pnp: Device 00:0f activated. [ 15.780510] 00:0f: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq=4) is a 16550A [ 15.781322] PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:0a.1 [ 15.781396] PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:0a.0 -- Kernel boot hangs on IRQ in Gutsy with Thinkpad X21 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/147972 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