[stoffmann]

Regarding the long boot time with Lucid i found out the following.
The reason for the delay is somehow related to the floppy settings in BIOS.
If possible disable it in BIOS.
If you (like me) have no option to disable it follow these instructions.

edit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf and add:

Code:

blacklist floppy

After saving the edited file run this command:

Code:

update-initramfs -u

This fixed the problem for me.

I found this tip here.

[Hannes The Hun]

excellent fix, thanks alot! I guess a lot of people here experience this problem, especially when USB media are not mounting. blacklisting the floppy should do the job for the Atom&Ion-crowd wonderfully where there's no option for floppy at all.
we even had this problem at work with our ubuntu machines, will forward it to our admin.