If you ever ran into a situation where some of your SharePoint did not start properly in a timely manner, you could forcibly start the sites using the stsadm -o provisionservice command in the following manner.

 

stsadm -o provisionservice -action start -servicename OSearch -servicetype "Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchService,Microsoft.Office.Server.Search, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c"

 

The -servicename is what will be key for you. You need to make sure you have a list of all service names. The ideal way to do this would be to use the following command from a fully functional server and it gives you a list of all service names

 

stsadm -o enumservices

 

 

cheers,

nilaish