why my FC6 start so slowly?

[John]

redtroy zhang wrote:
> I installed FC6 on my IBM R51E laptop.
> It worked well before,
> but after i update my system with "yum", the kernel changed from 
> 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 to 2.6.20-1.2933.fc6.
> the new kernel starts quite slowly, when setting host name and 
> starting HAL, but the old one goes fast.
> what's the problem ? How to fix that problem?
> Thank you
>
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  I have the same thing going on with my Compaq- can't remember (off 
hand) which kernel is running.