On Thursday 27 April 2006 23:14, Mark H. Harris wrote:
Since upgrading my machines to the suse 9.2 professional boxed set, all of the machines began taking 5 minutes to boot-up... hanging around for a very long time "creating devices" and "setting up kernel module dependencies (if required)".
What is the system waiting for? What is the trick to get the boot-up process to fly by like before?
Usually such a wait during boot is due to something it wants from the network... before the network is working. A DNS lookup, or a time sync using NTP. Next time it hangs.... besides looking very carefully at what the last message was (which may or may not be helpful) try doing a CTL-C to kill a process. If this lets it continue, look at the NEXT message that was displayed. It may tell you what got killed and give you a clue.