On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 13:08 +0100, Maccy wrote: > I'm having some problems trying to get SL4.5 to run properly on an Intel > Core 2 Duo system with Intel DQ965GF mobo and 2 x SATA II disks. The O/S > installs fine but takes forever to boot up and run. >
Is the system normally connected to a network, and at the moment is not connected, or is not getting a DHCP lease? I would do as Jan says and watch as the system is booting. Which service seems slow to start? I would bet it is a network-related service - sendmail, NFS or NIS binding, and the system is either unable to resolve a hostname, or is unable to connect to the relevant server. Just for fun, remove the swap from the fstab (I know this is a bad idea) and any NFS mounted drives, then reboot. Also boot it single user - does it boot in an acceptable time in this case? Again points to a network related problem.
