On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 5:16 PM, John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org> wrote:

Andy> I've got a version of Ubuntu 13.10 in my Virtualbox OSE virtual
Andy> computer. It hangs very early in the boot. GRUB runs and the
Andy> boot starts.

I've moved to Linux Mint myself, but it's based on Ubuntu and I've
noticed that my main desktop, which NFS mounts home dirs and other
stuff, takes *forever* to actually boot not. There's something in the
setup which hangs for five minutes or so (not sure, I just walk away
right now cause I rarely reboot the box...) before it continues.

Have you just let the boot sit there to see if it ever finishes? I've
been meaning to turn on verbose debugging to try and figure out what's
going on too, but it's a low priority.

I find that fstab is also often a problem. If it's waiting for /dev/sdb1 to show up, or a specific UUID. Maybe comment out anything not required for boot. Also, if you're at the console, comment out your whole /etc/network/interfaces and see if that helps. Ubuntu often waits on block devices and network, so it could be either of those.

Randall Mason
clashthebunny@gmail.com