Delay during boot up

[dave at tokyocomedy.com (Dave Gutteridge)]

>I would recommend that you remark out the line that mounts that drive
>in /etc/fstab and reboot to see if it still does that.
>
Okay, I commented the line out of /etc/fstab and the long delay during 
the boot process is still there.

So now I'm at a loss to suggest any other recent configuration that I've 
done that could potentially be the problem.

Without having any other guesses about what is causing the delay, what 
would be a way to diagnose it?

Dave