israel.garcia at cimex.com.cu wrote: > Hi, I've installed CentOS5.2 on an INTEL Core 2 Duo (Intel(R) Core(TM)2 > Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz), 4 GB RAM (MemTotal: 4072176 kB) and > my system gets sevarel minutes to startup, specially on udev daemon. If your disk controllers aren't properly recognized, it might help booting with hda=noprobe hdc=noprobe You can test this by running "hdparm -t -T" on your disk with and without these boot options. This has helped me on some systems. Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark Phone: +45 33 27 53 25, Fax: +45 33 27 47 08 Email: mk at crc.dk Homepage: http://www.crc.dk