boot error - *UPDATE - followup*

[dfear]

Hi 

Just a short update as promised in my previous post on this subject.
When i started the PC today, i thought it would start up fine but i'm
afraid it didn't. Again it hung at the point where it displays "starting
hotplug filesystem", and know it was because it left the PC for about 30
mins - twice.

Remembering some information i had seen on the mailing list a week or so
ago, i decided to try disconnecting various usb devices before trying to
boot the PC. I usually have 3 usb devices connected to the PC plus 1
other plugged into a hub.  I have a usb scanner, hub and ps2-to-usb
adaptor (all usb 1.x) plugged into usb2 ports on the PC and a usb
headset plugged into the hub. I decided to see if any of the usb devices
were causing the PC to hang when booting. After a long session of
unplugging and plugging various usb devices and rebooting in between; i
discovered that the usb hub i have is causing the PC to hang on booting
up. I think i finally have a PC (with ubuntu) that will boot up
successfully every time when i turn it on - even though it stall for
30-35 seconds at the point when it displays "starting hotplug
filesystem". Total boot time is around 90-105 seconds (inc 30 second
wait) on my 950 Mhz Athlon PC.

Hopefully this problem is finally over as i *really* want to be able to
recommend ubuntu to other people.
 
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Dave Fear :: dfear at blueyonder.co.uk
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On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 03:43 +0100, dfear wrote:
> Finally would like to update everybody on the "other" major problem i
> was having before installing today (with release version). I was having
> major problems with booting ubuntu. Ubuntu would not boot correctly
> virutally everytime booted the PC.  Please see my previous post relating
> to this issue for fall details. 
> 
> Ubuntu booted fine when it started the second stage of the install
> process. The only thing that it still did was to display error messages
> relating to 'pciehp' and 'shpchp' modules and hotplug; but the boot
> process did *NOT* hang at that point (which it did before - for long
> periods time normally). As this is the first time i have booted my PC
> since reinstalling ubuntu, i cannot yet report this issue as being
> resolved. I will post to the list sometime later today, after i get up,
> what the result of booting is and if the issue has finally been
> resolved.