James P. Wallen composed on 2016-10-23 12:14 (UTC-0400):
On 10/22/2016 18:10 (UTC-0400), Jape Person wrote:
It's confusing to see a response from a different person writing as if he was
responding to himself.
Be that as it may, have either of you tried intercepting Grub and unquieting
the boot process? Remove quiet, and either change splash to splash=0 or
remove splash entirely. Then proceed to boot, and see what if anything shows
up on screen besides a blinking underline cursor in the upper left corner.
Does the same thing happen booting the previous kernel (4.6?)?
Have you tried giving it 10 or more minutes before assuming boot won't complete?
I have a Stretch installation last updated about three weeks ago, which
installed a 4.7 kernel of 26 Sept. Booting it just now took >4.5 minutes to
get from the Grub selection to seeing boot messages appear on screen, but
from the point messages started appearing, boot proceeded normally.
I have >20 multiboot PCs with various distros. I've been encountering this
type of boot delay, sometimes as long as more than 13 minutes, with random
kernel/initrd pairs in several different distros, for going on two years.
It's happened only when Dracut builds the initrd, and only with 64 bit
installations. Whenever I've asked anywhere about this I've gotten zero
useful response, if any response at all.
http://markmail.org/message/yj3l3uphno3cgpgp is probably where I first asked
publicly.
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