[Watford] Suse 10.3 hangs for 2 minutes at start of boot sequence.

[Cliff Deamer]

Hi Walt,
There is discussion of this at
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/106121 and a suggested solution.
Cliff

On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 10:07 +0000, walt wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Further to my previous email,  I now have an error message:
> 
> 	Comreset failed (errorno 960 or 976) 
> 
> This is what takes ages, like 2 - 3 minutes, before the system starts
> loading. Can anybody tell me what it means and what to do about it.  
> 
> Many thanks,Walter
> 
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> I tried to upgrade Suse 10.2 to 10.3 but that failed so I did a clean, fresh
> install with a freshly partitioned harddisk.  Suse displays the boot options
> screen and then switches to the normal splash screen where you should be
> able to press esc to get to text screen showing you what its doing.
> 
> And this is the problem,  its sits there for 2 minutes or more and the
> keyboard won't respond.  Then it finally starts the boot process at which
> point I can press esc to see the progress. Once it starts it behaves
> normally but I have to eliminate the long delay before it boots.
> 
> Any ideas?  I have already removed all peripherals especially usb devices
> but to no avail.
> 
> Walter
> 
> 
> 
> 
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