strange 2.5m pause in Fedora2 boot.

[David Liguori]

Reg Clemens wrote:
> I find this very strange.
> I have Fedora2 on a half dozen machines, and only one is showing this
> problem.
> 
> In RedHat8 the boot proceeds smoothly, as you would expect.
> In the newly installed Fedora2 (different partition), on the first page
> of output from the boot there is a 2.5minute pause.
> 
> What I see is, the first page of output (listing the kernel name)
> down thru:
> 
>     Uncompressing Linux ...
>     ACPI ...
>     Audit( ... )
> 
> and then this 2.5minute pause.  
> After the pause the boot continues just fine, and I see NO errors or
> warnings anywhere.
> 
> The hardware itself is an Intel 3GHz processor on a D845PEBT2 motherboard.
> 
> Anyone seen this problem before?
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Seems someone must be scanning hardware, or file systems, or something, 
> but that early in the boot seems rather strange.
> 
>

Are you using graphical boot?  Did you press "show details"?

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David Liguori