Edgy 2.6.10 taking tens of minutes to boot up

[N. Pauli]

Dear All,

I'm writing this on another machine whilst waiting for Edgy to boot up - yet again. The hard drive light is burning constantly and NOTHING is happening. I've had this before and gone into recovery mode to see if there is anything wrong with xorg config file but it is always just as I left it. What I do have on the machine is an NVIDIA AGP graphics card. Is this causing problems? Is there anything I can insert at the GRUB prompt to let the machine know that that is handling the graphics? Anyway, why should I have to!?! Surely, that's the job of /etc/X11/xorg.conf!!

My work around is never to turn off my machine - unless I'm away on holiday - which I have been for the last week.

Can anyone tell me what is actually happening here?

Nigel

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Nigel Pauli
Network Manager
St. John's School, Northwood
http://www.st-johns.org.uk/