<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">From: Luis Mondesi <lemsx1@gmail.com><br>To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com><br>Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 1:09:37 AM<br>Subject: Re: troubleshooting long startup times<br><br>On Jan 12, 2008 12:59 AM, <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:keithclark1966@rogers.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:keithclark1966@rogers.com">keithclark1966@rogers.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">From: Luis Mondesi <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:lemsx1@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:lemsx1@gmail.com">lemsx1@gmail.com</a>><br>To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com"> ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>><br>Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 12:51:53 AM<br>Subject: Re: troubleshooting long startup times<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 12, 2008 12:47 AM, Keith Clark <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:keithclark1966@rogers.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:keithclark1966@rogers.com"> keithclark1966@rogers.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> How can I start Ubuntu 7.10 in verbose mode so that I can see what is taking so long to boot up?<br></blockquote><div><br>at the "grub" menu prompt type "ESC" then highlight the kernel you want to boot from and type "e" <br><br>in "editing" mode remove "splash" and "quiet" from the line<br><br>hit "ENTER" on your keyboard<br><br>type "b" to "boot"<br><br>if you want to make this permanent, edit /boot/grub/menu.lst (for Grub1, which is the default at this moment) <br></div></div><br>-- <br>----)(----- <br>Luis Mondesi<br>Maestro Debiano<br><br><br></div>Thanks! This worked perfectly.<br><br>My system booted within 30 seconds this way, the default way takes about 4 to 5 minutes. I have no idea why this would be. Any thoughts? <br><br>Keith<br></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br>there was a thread about this a few days ago. go to the list archives (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://lists.ubuntu.com">http://lists.ubuntu.com</a>). <br><br>i think it's something to do with usplash doing infinite loops on some hardware. <br><br>the same thing happened to us on Splashy with libdirectfb, but this has since been fixed (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://splashy.alioth.debian.org/wiki/faq">http://splashy.alioth.debian.org/wiki/faq</a>) thanks to the people at RPath Linux. <br><br>yep. my opinion in this matter is biased, as I'm the main developer for Splashy :-D <br>(if you want to know how they relate, read the history at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://splashy.alioth.debian.org/wiki/history">http://splashy.alioth.debian.org/wiki/history </a>)<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>----)(----- <br>Luis Mondesi<br>Maestro Debiano<br></div><br>Thanks. I made the changes perfect and all is well now.<br><br>Keith<br><br></div></div></body></html>