On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 16:05:43 +0100
Nina Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> extremely long time to boot. However, I do not suspect that there is
> something wrong with the disk because I have tried several different
> disks and they all have the same problem. When I insert the rescue
> floppy and enter "rescue root=/dev/hde8" the system boots just fine,
> however, I'd like like to avoid this workaround. 

I remember having the same problem sometime...using the boot floppy realy does 
take a long time. In fact, whenever there's any problem, i used the rescue.bin. 

However, you might want to take a look at booting directly using lilo or grub...

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