Hello everybody, I've been running SuSE since 6.0 on a lot of different desktops and laptops, but lately I noticed something very strange. When using SuSE 8.2 with an IBM A31p loading the kernel takes about 19 seconds (the part where it says Loading linux.............). On all other systems this takes just a few seconds at most. This is a P4 1.8 Ghz laptop, so it should load very fast. I'm using the stock 2.4.20-4GB kernel from SuSE with the following append line: acpi=off hdc=ide-scsi hdclun=0 showopts. Does anyone have an explanation for this? Could it be something in the kernelparameters? Regards, Marco Teeuwen