why my FC6 start so slowly?

[John]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 12:31 -0500, John wrote:
>   
>> David Timms wrote:
>>     
>>> John wrote:
>>>       
>>>> 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?
>>>>>           
>>> ..
>>>       
>>>>  I have the same thing going on with my Compaq- can't remember (off 
>>>> hand) which kernel is running.
>>>>         
>>> Could you see if having your network cable unplugged as you boot up 
>>> speeds things up ?
>>> You could also try temporarily removing quiet from the grub kernel 
>>> line {/boot/grub/grub.conf}
>>>
>>> Post back your results.
>>>
>>> DavidT.
>>>
>>>       
>>   You know, I did notice something weird- now that you mention the 
>> cable. The first time I booted up, the cable was connected and the start 
>> up seemed to spend more time on sendmail (then I thought it should be). 
>> The 2nd boot up (hrs later) was w/o the cable connected; it booted up 
>> fairly quickly. The 3rd boot had the cable connected and the start up 
>> dragged on again.
>>
>>                 John
>>
>>     
> A problem with you Internet access can slow up any service that depends
> on it.
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>   
:) After all the years with Windows, the net doesn't get turned on until 
everything is running.