Edgy 2.6.10 taking tens of minutes to boot up

[Janne Jokitalo]

David Restall - System Administrator wrote:
> Hi Jaska,

Hello again. :)

> 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.

We'll just have to wait and see.

> I'm pretty sure I have done all this correct - the instructions
> and comments in menu.lst are pretty clear and simple to understand.

True.

> IIRC, it was update-grub that caused the overwrite of the options.

I have vague recollection of something similar from long time ago. 
Perhaps it really was broken sometime, don't know.

> 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 :-)

At the beginning, this happened to me very often. :)

> Thanks for the kick up the backside :-)

No prob, sometimes one just needs a little push. :)


Kind regards,

-- 
Jaska