[ale] laptop booting oddity

[pete.hardie at gmail.com (Pete Hardie)]

ALErs,

I have an older laptop that I inherited, and I installed Fedora 14 on
it, and things were doing fine, when suddenly, about a month ago,
after one of the kernel updates,
it now requires that I hold a key down during boot to complete, and
similarly for shutdown.  I can hold down Shift or Ctr or CRl, but if I
don't, the process freezes.

I tried Googling for laptop boot freeze, but there are apparently
quite a few other issues that use that sort of keyword set.

Has anyone seen/heard of my problem before?


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