Edgy 2.6.10 taking tens of minutes to boot up

[Derek Broughton]

David Restall - System Administrator wrote:

> Hi Jaska,
> 
>> David Restall - System Administrator wrote:
>> > It's my pet hate with ubuntu, every time a kernel is upgraded, it
>> > rewrites the grub config and turns quiet on, I haven't yet managed to
>> > sort out how to change the default without some serious hacking. 
>> > Having a noisy boot is preferable to a quiet one IMHO.
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> Thanks for your reply, I'm sure I've tried that and it has no effect,
> indeed the line goes back to as it was after editing.

No, really.  update-grub never changes the #defoptions line.  That's for you
to set the options you want.
-- 
derek