strange 2.5m pause in Fedora2 boot.
David Liguori
liguorid at albany.edu
Wed Jan 26 14:44:37 UTC 2005
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"?
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David Liguori
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