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...