[Mageia-dev] Fresh install hangs during boot since yesterday

Fri Nov 18 23:00:44 CET 2011

On 11/18/2011 05:43 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+> As for the longer delay, I'm not 100% sure. I don't know much about 
+> the radeon drivers, but it would be easy enough to tell your 
+> plymouth-quit-wait.service to not start which might help "systemctl 
+> disable plymouth-quit-wait.service" If you do not use LVM or anything 
+> else "exotic", you can likely also call "systemctl disable 
+> udev-settle.service" too which might speed up your boot. Not got an 
+> immediate ideas yet, as I've been out the loop for the last week or so 
+> getting my head down at work. Col 
+
+OK, after the latest fresh install, I booted a rescue disk, chroot'ed to 
+the mounted new root partition, and disabled those two services.  The 
+first boot of the new system still got the looong delay.
+
+One thing I noticed is that the Mageia splashscreen comes up initially, 
+disappears after a few seconds as if X is going to come up, the screen 
+then goes from dark-blank to pitch-dark, and then the splashscreen comes 
+back.  It is then that the slooow progression of the progress dots begins.
+
+On the second boot, there is no reappearance of the splashscreen.
+