strange 2.5m pause in Fedora2 boot.

[Bob Chiodini]

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...