[ltp] Booting problems

[Mallipeddi Venkata Harish]

Hi all,

I have a IBM Thinkpad R40 (Centrino) running Mandrake 10.1 CE. It was 
working great for sometime. But, since a few months, I'm having this 
problem. When I switch on (or restart) the laptop, it gets stuck at the 
initial IBM Thinkpad logo screen for a long long time. Pressing F1 or the 
Access IBM key does not seem to work at all. What I do right now is to keep 
restarting (by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del) and finally after n attempts it loads 
LILO and boots linux. Otherwise it gets stuck at the IBM logo screen as I 
mentioned for a longtime.

Why is this happening? Someone suggested that it might be due to some 
hardware failure. But, I do not see anything like that. Everything seems to 
be working fine after it boots into linux.

Thanks in advance,
Harish

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