Really REALLY slow computer

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

>>> This is immediately after boot up, (Immediate isn't the right 
>> word as it takes ~45mins to boot and log in) Is this normal? 
>> Forty-five minutes?  NO!
> 
> Yup, 45 mins!
> 
> It starts to boot OK but really bogs down when it gets to INIT and then
> udev times out which takes about 10mins. I was hoping the 2.6.21 kernel
> was going to help but it did not. Everything seems to function OK when
> it finally boots but it juuussssttt ttttoooo ssslllooowwww. AAAAGGGGHHHH!
> 
Is there anything in the logs about timeouts during boot?
/var/log/dmesg may have some clues...

Mikkel
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