[SOLVED]30 second pause during boot

[boundzy]

Thanks for the color-coded elaboration, old-polack. 

Interestingly, I have not added a new distro or OS since I added PCLOS in July 2010 to this laptop, which had W7 installed. Boot time had lengthened, and are now shorter.

I've been a linux user for only 5 or 6 months, so I am still learning. When things go wrong (almost invariably user error!), it's nice to know why it happened and why the fix worked. I appreciate you and kjpetrie taking the time to explain.

[plankton172]

Hello.

Sorry for resurrecting an old thread but our computer seems to be booting strangely after numerous hard-reboots -- that is, we at several times had to turn off the CPU switch off because the system had become unresponsive (often caused whenever we're copying or transfering files between the hard disk and an external memory media like an SD card). Add also the time when our UPS was conky and so every little electricity dip in our house managed to cut off the power to the CPU -- thus leading to unwanted reboot. We got a new UPS now, thank goodness.

I need to be clear: The computer still boots OK to PCLinuxOS but we cannot help but notice it "pauses" to a specific portion, and I managed to capture some of what's on screen:

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initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd-2.6.38.8-pclos1.pae.bfs.img
   (Linux-initrd @  0x37cd0000, 0x..... bytes)

cannot open file delete   ---> when this is displayed, the pause happens!

/bin/resume: error while loading shared libraries: libply......


I tried the mkinitrd solution as posted in this thread but it didn't solve the problem. It actually, made my system pause TWICE because these lines:

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initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd-2.6.38.8-pclos1.pae.bfs.img
   (Linux-initrd @  0x37cd0000, 0x..... bytes)

cannot open file delete


...now displays TWICE while booting(?!?)

Hope you guys can help.