really REALLY slow computer

[Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak]

>>> 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...
> 
> Nothing about timeouts. Here are a few things from dmesg that might be
> of interest.


Make sure you have the latest BIOS available for the DC7700 (we are 
talking about a DC7700, right)?

Also, I boot my DC7700 with the "pci=noacpi acpi=off" kernel parameters.


- Mike