akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx said: [snip] > Now the machine when booting displays the FC2 grub choice screen. > After the choice is made the kernel is accessed but then the machine > goes into what seems to be an indefinite hang. But actually, after a half > hour or an hour (we have not measured this accurately since it took so > long) the machine continues its boot. Does booting without the "quiet" option give a better idea of where it stops? What SCSI hardware? IIRC there are some scsi controllers that take a very long to initialize. > Now in looking at the system files > on the machine we find the strange fact that the /initrd file still seems > to contain the files of the ram disk. It is not emptied as it should have > been. Does booting without "rhgb" help? > The system logs shows nothing that indicates delay except the system > keeps searching for ide drives that don't exist. Could you give us some examples? -- William Hooper
