Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 15:28:06 -0500 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dchapman@houabg.com> To: "Mike Muir" <mmuir@es.co.nz>, "J McKitrick" <jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org>, "stable" <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: shorter boot time? Message-ID: <015001bfbf75$407743a0$931576d8@inethouston.net> References: <20000516173854.A9898@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <007301bfbf74$53bd9c30$411415d1@haus>
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You can set ide_delay to something like 2000 instead of the default of 8 seconds ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Muir" <mmuir@es.co.nz> To: "J McKitrick" <jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org>; "stable" <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 3:21 PM Subject: Re: shorter boot time? > > > > I have seen a few remarks on the boot time for 4.0. This is strange, > > because mine seems about the same. Also, it seems to have a rather long > > delay about halfway through the boot process. I can't figure out what it > > is... i know if the zip is attached (parallel port) it is checked during > > this interval, but something else is going on that seems to slow my > machine > > down. Is there a way of figuring it out? > > > > Under 3.4, there was a check for 2 IDE drives in GENERIC, and when this > was > > removed, the boot process was significantly faster. But i did not see > such > > an option for 4.0 to disable probing a second IDE, if that is even the > > issue. Any ideas? > > The small pause for me was for ATA devices. I no longer need them (no > ide/atapi devices in system) and the boot just flies right past that point. > The boot time on 4.0 is _significantly_ faster for me. > > -mike > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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