Long boot

[Brendan]

It might be because the GRUB Boot loader isn't installed correctly
On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 11:00 -0800, NoOp wrote:
> On 12/19/2008 06:54 AM, H.S.Rai wrote:
> > My laptop (Compaq Prsario V3000, RAM 512 MB, swap 1480 MB, CPU 800
> > MHz, Ubuntu 8.10 updated ) takes long time (about 04 minutes):
> > 
> > Grub prompt  00.0
> > Configuring network: start:- 26 sec End:- 1 min 37 sec (wait for 1 min
> > 11 sec) ***
> > Welcome audio music: 2 min 25 sec
> > On getting GUI click on icon of console: 2 min 41 sec
> > Appearance of console window: 3 min 41 sec
> > Appearance of prompt in console window: 3 min 50 sec
> > 
> > Can I make network configuring in background?
> > 
> > or is there any other way to make boot time less?
> > 
> 
> Possibly. Please post the first 5 lines of:
> 
> cat /etc/hosts
> 
> 
> 
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