MiniMe very slow boot

[demag]

I don't know what happened a few days ago but my desktop wouldn't boot Pclos 2009, the final version before 2010. I'd been putting off the change as I didn't like Kde4 as much as Kde3. I booted with System Rescue and it all looked ok but still wouldn't boot so I bit the bullet and downloaded Minime 2010 with my netbook and copied it to a usb drive using Unetbootin. This evening I booted the desktop from the usb drive and installed Minime 2010.

Now when I try to boot the desktop, every so often it hangs part way through the boot. By hitting the enter button I can coax it to get a bit further until eventually it will boot and runs flawlessly. I'm not sure what's wrong. Has anyone had similar?

[T6]

before installing minime did you verified hard disk when you partitioned it?

did you ran check for bad blocks?

did you created ext4 partitions or did you used the old partitions(possibly it was failing with 2009?)

what kernel are you using?

what messages of error or in what moment it hangs? press esc key to see verbose boot

[demag]

I didn't verify hdd or check for bad blocks as the hdd is not very old. I repartitioned the drive on installation.

Went into verbose and it hangs when starting udev. Also udev-post fails to start.

2.6.32.11 kernel.