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