On 6/3/2012 11:05 PM, Dan B. wrote: > After I ran hwinfo (to detect a modem), my machine runs very slowly at > the beginning of booting. You did something else also. The hwinfo manpage says nothing about running at boot, so I assume it has nothing to do with this. Something is running at boot that wasn't before, and is slowing down the boot process. Look at your dmesg output and your grub command line to see what it may be. -- Stan