XBian stalls on initial boot

[James Dean]

I picked up an 8GB class 4 SanDisk card and tried that using the XBian Installer on Mac. It really looked like I was going to get the same result, but I let it sit on that screen for 2.5 hours and then it finally moved on to "starting xbmc..." It never actually started after that, but the next time I plugged it in XBMC booted in less than 60 sec.

Is it normal for initial boot to take that long? Is there just some network/DHCP timeout that I need to disable/etc?

I was trying to set up networking using CEC, but my son inadvertently hit the power switch and that corrupted the whole boot system and now I am starting over with the hours of waiting.

Is this the thing that is taking so much time?

Quote:Yes. On the first boot, XBian will expand the partition so it will use the full amount of space available on the device.

-http://www.xbian.org/faqs/