Description of problem: The blank stare after it says "starting redhat nash" has gotten longer and longer on my system as the fedora release number has gotten bigger. I was recently told about "bootchart" and after running it, it appears as though it really is a blank stare with nothing happening for the first 18 seconds of boot time, so I thought I'd report it and see what happens. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): nash-6.0.19-4.fc8.x86_64 kernel-2.6.23.14-115.fc8.x86_64 How reproducible: Every time I boot. Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot system 2. watch blank stare after nash 3. Actual results: long delay Expected results: quick like a bunny Additional info: For a long time I suspected it was waiting for the external USB drive to spin up, but when I tried bootchart with and without the drive plugged in, there was no difference. Find the bootchart graphs here: http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley/boot-with-usb.png http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley/boot-no-usb.png And here's the hardware info: http://www.smolts.org/show?UUID=fac67118-367a-4ace-851a-91aa46358943 P.S. I don't know if kernel is the right component for this, but there wasn't a component named "nash", so I used kernel.
Filing against mkinitrd.
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