To restate the issue:
everything goes fine until I get the login prompt (terminal not gui) in top left hand corner with nothing else on the screen.
The screen then goes blank for 10 seconds before the gui login window opens.
There is constant disk activity during this blank screen.
All works perfectly when the login screen appears.
I also removed the "quiet" param when booting in case it showed further info but it did'nt and the screen was still blank.
Seems to me the blank screen happens when the login manager or gnome is called.
Not a big issue for me. I still dont know if there is a problem (since there is constant disk activity during the blank screen) but a total boot time of 23 secs it is very acceptable.
]]>If you are using Syslinux, press tab on the Arch Linux entry and add "acpi=off". Then press enter to boot.
If you are using GRUB, press e to edit the entry, then add "acpi=off" to the linux line (the line with "root=xxx" and "ro" in it). The press F10 to boot I believe (it should tell you the key shortcuts at the botttom).
This will probably throw some errors if you try to start X, but that's not important. Just check to see if the screen still goes blank. Once it's booted, just restart without adding the kernel parameter and everything should be back to normal.
]]>You can boot with ACPI off by appending it to the kernel line like so:
root=/dev/sda2 apci=off ro
You probably won't be able to startx with ACPI off, but you can at least verify whether the issue still occurs.
]]>You can check and see if it's the same by disabling ACPI to see if the issue still occurs.
I've reported my issue upstream, and recently got a request from a developer for additional debugging output, which I sent along. If it's the same issue, I'll let you know what happens.
]]>Maybe there is no problem? The system just doing whatever it does to get everything loaded?
Does 23 seconds seem reasonable for an arch loadup?
firbolg
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