[horay] hotplug hangs system after inital install

[mat nicholson]

after the inital install, the sytem reboots and when it gets to hotplug, 
it just hangs there. this is a dell demension 4500s, with a radeon video 
card (also has on board video). have tried unplugging/removing 
everything except keyboard and mouse (on-board video cannot be 
disabled). this happened with an RC and the final release. any help? any 
ideas? any way to disable hotplug, and if so, what would the downside be?

this is a for a freind of mine who really wants to try ubuntu, and it 
sucks that his system is teh one i've ever seen it not like. any help 
would be great.