Edgy 2.6.10 taking tens of minutes to boot up

[David Restall - System Administrator]

Hi Jaska,

>> Look for this line in /boot/grub/menu.lst:
>>
>> # defoptions=quiet splash
>>
>> Change that as you will, then update-grub will change the menu items 
>> accordingly.

Snip...

> That's interesting, I don't remember that ever happening on any of my 
> systems. Sorry if you already mentioned it, I have missed it then, but 
> what version are you running? I just dropped 'quiet' in Feisty, and it 
> remains to be seen when the next update comes, what happens. :)
> 
> Just to make sure, you are keeping the '#' char at the beginning of that 
> row, when you make changes and save the file correctly (I suppose one 
> could ask whether you open the file with appropriate permissions, too)?

I've just edited menu.lst and done an update-grub and the changes stayed
in place so I can't replicate the problem.  Hopefully, the changes will
stay in place over the next kernel upgrade.

I'm pretty sure I have done all this correct - the instructions
and comments in menu.lst are pretty clear and simple to understand.
IIRC, it was update-grub that caused the overwrite of the options.
As I said earlier, this all happened quite a while ago.  I was also
moving from lilo to grub and debian to ubuntu and dapper with dapper
not being fully finalised so may well have been doing something wrong.
It's strange how you can sometimes just accept a situation and get on
with it without revisiting the problem :-)

Thanks for the kick up the backside :-)

TTFN



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