Re: Fedora 12 Beta

[Adam Williamson <awilliam redhat com>]

On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 14:08 +0100, Terry Barnaby wrote:

> >>> 4 - F12 boots really slow on my laptop
> >>> http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/tmp/bootchart.png something
> >>> wrong is happening while udev loading
> >>
> >> Please file a bug for this, on 'udev' component for now, and CC Harald
> >> Hoyer (hhoyer at redhat). Thanks!
> >>
> Note that on my Thinkpad R52 Laptop F11 started doing this after
> a udev RPM update. It turned out to be the fact that there was no
> floppy drive in my system but the BIOS was configured with one
> enabled. I suspect this is default in some laptops so that
> docking stations etc work ??
> I think this bug is in Bugzilla, but I suspect it has not
> been fixed ...

That one's known, but is different from what the OP was seeing. With the
floppy-enabled thing, the system pauses entirely for pretty much exactly
a minute. The OP's case is different as bootchart shows.

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