ok im getting a few things. It takes 20 minutes to boot. the remounting drives readwrite is where it slows down. after its booted its fast again. Ill look into that.
does it take everyone the same time to boot? the disk light is not on during this time and with a fsck i would expect to see that flicker.... I can hook this box up to my web KVM and let someone watch it if they would like to try to see whats up here
ok I have an identical box here at work that I was using on 5.202 ^ does that same slowdown. Im booting it now and go to lunch. when I get back ill get you the hdparm info. also. FYI the Numlock key keeps flashing during this slow boot period starting at the :: Filesystemcheck and continues to flash until just before the login prompt. something changes at this point and stuff runs fast again. is hdparm getting run in some RC script?