On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 02:39:56PM +0200, Roberto Felloni wrote: > I have a big problem on boot. > My server, after runs services, before graphical login, > show me black screen, led of hdd turn off, and make nothing > until 3-5 minutes ... > and I don't understand what's happen !!! > > On messages log there are some lines than executes their job employing > 3 or 5 minutes. > > ----------------------------------------- > Jun 17 23:53:01 bear crond(pam_unix)[2799]: session opened for user > root by (uid=0) > Jun 17 23:53:01 bear fstab-sync[2798]: added mount point /media/cdrom > for /dev/hdb > Jun 17 23:53:01 bear crond(pam_unix)[2799]: session closed for user root > Jun 17 23:53:06 bear fstab-sync[2875]: added mount point /media/floppy > for /dev/fd0 > Jun 17 23:55:01 bear crond(pam_unix)[2898]: session opened for user > root by (uid=0) > Jun 17 23:55:04 bear crond(pam_unix)[2898]: session closed for user root > Jun 17 23:58:38 bear gdm(pam_unix)[2812]: session opened for user root > by (uid=0) > ------------------------------------------- > > At first time I have turned off crond service, to try better startup > and target the problem, > but the time of boot aren't better than previous. > > Now I wanna try to disable mounting of floppy drive. > >From here my request to mailinglist. > > some proposal ? > > thanks for your interest. > (sorry for the ignorance: I'm a Windoze user during day and Linux for > my free time). > >From the messages above I see that it created the mount points /media/cdrom and /media/floppy. I see no evidence that it tried to mount either device. I think your slow boot must be caused by something else. -- ======================================================================= A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. -- Oscar Wilde, "The Portrait of Mr. W.H." ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484