Hi, > IIRC, on older notebooks, there was a default time delay in the boot process (setting in BIOS, I think) that allowed the hard drive time to spin up to full speed before being accessed. > > I have a 10 year old IBM Thinkpad 240X (500MHz P4, dual boot W2k & Debian Etch), and it does the same thing whether it's running off the battery or AC. After grub loads, boot proceeds normally. > > This may not be your problem, but it should be examined in any case. I am quite sure this is not the case, as grub-loading was fast before updating to Fedora-11. I'll post menu.lst soon, but I doubt it will give any useful insights :/ Thanks, Clemens -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines