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Re: Black screen before login



On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:11:42 -0300 (ART)
Renato Gondim Filho <gondim2@yahoo.com.br> wrote:

> Hi list.
>    
>   I have some computers running Debian, and one of them (pentium
> 300mhz, 396 MB RAM), in the starting, before the desktop login
> appears, a black screen appears for 3 minutes. The hd doesn't work
> during this black screen. I tried other desktop (IceWm, blackbox) and
> the result is the same. Does anyone knows what could be wrong? In
> others list, a user of a pentium 200mhz said it's loaded instantly in
> that machine. Any information will be welcome. My thanks in advance. 

Could be a DNS issue. What is the hostname of the machine which exhibits
the delay? Is there an entry for that name in /etc/hosts?

-- 

Liam



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