I have noticed that it takes linux-image-2.6.15-26-686 about 15 seconds to mount root (most of it with no disk activity) as the second step of the boot process, where linux-image-2.6.15-23-686 took a faction of a second.
-- Slow disk writes (ubuntu kernel) https://launchpad.net/bugs/50741 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
