Long Deplay when booting

[Charles R. Anderson]

On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 12:30:29PM +0300, Isam Bayazidi wrote:
> > The system holds for around 40-50 seconds, before proceding with the boot,
> > and running init, and funtioning properly.. it is just that the long delay
> > at booting made me think that the kernel is not working, until I started to
> > write the long numbre in the audit, when after around a minute the system
> > continued properly..

The delay sounds to me like "quiet" boot mode.  Try booting without
the "quiet" option to the kernel.  At least you should then see any 
messages that may explain things.