<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.0.9"> </HEAD> <BODY> Hi, I've just performed a standard installation of Ubuntu on my Panasonic Toghbook notebook (it is quite old, but it works). At the boot time, after a few <ok> the system freezes at "starting hotplug subsystem". There is no way to move it and it stays locked. Is there anything I can do? (I will reinstall all anyway, with a custom installation, as described for small memory systems, but it is interesting to know why it locks on hotplug) Thanks Pierluigi Adami </BODY> </HTML>