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. >