Suse 10.2 boot problems

[Donkie]

Hi

I'm running suse 10.2(-2.6.18.2-34-default ) on an amd 3200+ 64bit with 768Mb ram. And it takes 40min to boot!!!

I see this at startup:

Grub loading stage2..
root (hd0,1)
filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.2-34-default
root=/dev/hdc2 vga=0x310 resume=/dev/hdc1 splash=silent
[linux - bzImage,setup=0x1e00,size=0x1894f]
%about a 20 min wait here
initrd /boot/initrd -2.6.18.2-34-default
%about a 20 min wait here again
%after this 20min wait is takes 2min then I'm in.

Here is my menu.lst if it may help:

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Thu Feb  8 19:19:46 SAST 2007 
default 0 
timeout 8 
gfxmenu (hd0,1)/boot/message 
##YaST - activate 

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### 
title openSUSE 10.2 

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy### 
title Floppy 
    rootnoverify (hd0,0) 
    chainloader (fd0)+1 

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### 
title Failsafe -- openSUSE 10.2 

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: 2.6.18.2-34-default### 
title 2.6.18.2-34-default 
    initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd-2.6.18.2-34-default

If anyone can please help me. I'm a newbee with linux so please be gentle!

[devils casper]

hi Donkie !!

Welcome to LinuxForums.

post all the contents of menu.lst file. its not complete. is it?








Casper

[Donkie]

I've just realized that that was the broken menu.lst file which didn't work! I'll post the correct one later on. Is it possible that the problem can be hardware related? If it can be how can I check and hopefully fix it?

[devils casper]

i could be hardware related problem but i want to check menu.lst file first.
if menu.lst file is correct then we will look in hardware.







Casper