non-GUI boot vc screen litter

[Felix Miata]

CPU is 2000MHz Sempron; video MGA; RAM 1G DDR333; boot to runlevel 3

http://fm.no-ip.com/Files/Pix/f15-bootscreen.jpg

1-why are (pre?/post?) boot messages showing up here after login prompt appears?

2-is taking so long to finish booting (140+ sec.) typical on this hardware?
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