> i installed mandrake 7,2 on my computer which has pentium 2 processor 128 mg ram im also running windows me the problem i have is there is a 3 to 5 min lag between finding module dependencies and then the next phase of booting up
> ive also tried mandrake 8.0 beta and the same thing .. what would cause this ? i tried red hat 7.0 and it boots fast but i dont like it at all. i would appreciate any help i can get my partition info is C: FAT32 SIZE 6,738MB USED 5,450MB FREE 1,288MB
> EXTENDED 3,027
SWAP 219MB
EXT2 2,808MB LISTED IN THAT ORDER

I have the same problem on one of my Mandrake 8.0 machines.

It can't be the processing power because the one with the delay is a Pentium 200, the one that only takes 2 seconds on the 'Module dependencies' line is a Pentium 100.

Have you managed to solve your problem?