Recently friend of mine told me he had a problem with new laptop with Intel Core
2 Duo [he could not install some DB under Windows] and about Intel's patch
available. I do not have it, but googling gave some links including

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=479778

HTH

Alex


Quoting John Hearns <[log in to unmask]>:

> On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 13:08 +0100, Maccy wrote:
> > I'm having some problems trying to get SL4.5 to run properly on an Intel 
> > Core 2 Duo system with Intel DQ965GF mobo and 2 x SATA II disks. The O/S 
> > installs fine but takes forever to boot up and run.
> > 
> 
> Is the system normally connected to a network, and at the moment is not
> connected, or is not getting a DHCP lease?
> 
> I would do as Jan says and watch as the system is booting.
> Which service seems slow to start? I would bet it is a network-related
> service -  sendmail, NFS or NIS binding, and the system is either unable
> to resolve a hostname, or is unable to connect to the relevant server.
> 
> Just for fun, remove the swap from the fstab (I know this is a bad idea)
> and any NFS mounted drives, then reboot.
> 
> Also boot it single user -  does it boot in an acceptable time in this
> case? Again points to a network related problem.
>