Slow to Boot

[brahan_7]

Has anyone experienced extremely slow boot times of 5 minuits or more?
What can cause this on a freshly installed machine?
And I'm not including the initial boot.

[daark.child]

On my openSUSE 10.3 installations, I can boot into KDE in about 30 to 45 seconds which makes me think that there is a problem somewhere. If its a fresh install, try reinstalling. Also look at the startup process to see where exactly things are slowing down.

[bigtomrodney]

You can hit Escape to drop the bootsplash screen and watch boot messages. Watch out for ones that seem to take longer than others and post back here with details.

[brahan_7]

I have done this and found that something called ata2 is trying to access some service and is getting denied...it keeps trying to do this until it succeeds.

I have reinstalled many times with no changes to the time it takes.

[wowbag1]

There was a thread which suggested this:
have been having a similar problem on my Dell 4600. One solution is to edit your modprobe .conf. After the line that reads alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix insert options ata_piix noprobe. Now you should make a ramdisk and hopefully on your next boot you won't have that irritating delay. To make the ramdisk as root type
Code:

/sbin/mkinitrd initrd-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6.img 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6

where 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 is the version of your kernel. Use uname -r to find the kernel info.
As you can see it is an old one, but maybe it will help it does not always work.
Someone else said that his problem was caused by a bad drive.