Did you try removing the "quiet"? That option shuts up output after nash loads. This way you can see if it's hanging on something in particular (e.g. no network==DNS down==hang on sendmail (among others)). Since it boots fine after delay, that sounds normal to me. Dan W. On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:50:18AM +0100, Maccy wrote: > On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Maccy wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestion. Sorry, I should have said I did try this by > > editing the GRUB command line and disabling ACPI in the BIOS. I'm still > > getting the same result :( > > Seems I was a bit hasty....system boots fine after a delay at the > aforementioned point. > > Thanks again! > > Maccy