The 3 min delay at boot is due to a change that was made to the lvm package since dapper. It's script in the initramfs now checks to see if the boot path starts with /dev/mapper and if so, assumes it is an LVM volume and attempts to dissect the remaining part of the path into volume group and volume name components, then spins in a loop for up to 3 minutes waiting for the volume group to appear in /dev, which never happens since we are using dmraid, not lvm.
If you do not use LVM, you can remove /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts /local-top/lvm and then run update-initramfs. That should rebuild your initramfs without the lvm script. -- DMRAID stopped to work in kernels > 2.6.15 https://launchpad.net/bugs/54246 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
