tal, 10 months ago

But now every boot takes an additional 60-90 seconds with a blank screen.

Hmm.

Maybe whatever changes gparted did altered the root partition UUID; after it doesn't come up, maybe your distro has some sort of fallback to find the partition?

In /etc/fstab, you may have a line that looks something like this:

UUID=3aafadcd-1d21-4c82-97f8-f872f341bbe2 /           ext4    errors=remount=ro        0       1

If you run blkid, you can check and make sure that the UUID matches.

Or, as someone else mentions, maybe it's waiting for the deleted swap partition. Should be in the same file. Can comment out the reference to said swap partition.

EDIT: Wait, I'm being silly. The reference to the root partition that you're gonna care about is gonna be in the grub config file, not /etc/fstab. On my Debian system, that's at /boot/grub/grub.cfg.