Can't Boot after latest Feisty Upgrade

[John Graddy]

On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 19:30 -0500, John Graddy wrote:
> > 
> > Try what I suggested. You can either do it from 13 or 14. My guess is
> > that there may be an incomplete update floating around in the system
> > and/or 14 is looking for a device it can't find and eventually times
> > out. You can check all of the logs etc., etc., but I would first just
> > try updating again. If after doing that you still experience the same
> > problems, then dig into the logs etc.
> > 
> > BTW: Does 13 give the same delay?
> 
> I'll do as you suggest.
> 
> No, 13 has no delay at all.
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 

I tried your suggestions on both the 13 and 14 kernels.  Nothing has changed - 
I still have the large delay in booting.

I have tried to think of anything that I have done that could possibly
effect a kernel.  The only thing that I can come up with is, - per a
suggestion on this list, I added "acpi=force" at the end of the "kopt
line" in menu.lst so that a shutdown would completely shut down my
system.  I also ran "update grub".  I believe that 14 is the first
kernel that has been built since I made that change.  could that have
caused this problem?  

Thanks,
John