On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 09:44 -0500, David Liguori wrote: > > Reg Clemens wrote: > > I find this very strange. > > I have Fedora2 on a half dozen machines, and only one is showing this > > problem. > > > > In RedHat8 the boot proceeds smoothly, as you would expect. > > In the newly installed Fedora2 (different partition), on the first page > > of output from the boot there is a 2.5minute pause. > > > > What I see is, the first page of output (listing the kernel name) > > down thru: > > > > Uncompressing Linux ... > > ACPI ... > > Audit( ... ) > > > > and then this 2.5minute pause. > > After the pause the boot continues just fine, and I see NO errors or > > warnings anywhere. > > > > The hardware itself is an Intel 3GHz processor on a D845PEBT2 motherboard. > > > > Anyone seen this problem before? > > Any thoughts? > > > > Seems someone must be scanning hardware, or file systems, or something, > > but that early in the boot seems rather strange. > > > > > > Are you using graphical boot? Did you press "show details"? > > -- > David Liguori > > If it's not getting that far, remove rhgb and quiet from the kernel command line in GRUB. Bob...
