Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 00:38:59 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: "Jeff W." <dmt@bigfoot.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD takes 8 years to boot up Message-ID: <19980821003859.31729@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980820205637.00830ba0@ieng9.ucsd.edu>; from Jeff W. on Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 08:56:37PM -0700 References: <3.0.5.32.19980820205637.00830ba0@ieng9.ucsd.edu>
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On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 08:56:37PM -0700, Jeff W. woke me up to tell me: > Well, not literally, but a damn long time. I know I have to reconfigure > the kernel to only probe for the devices known to exist, but after doing > that, it still takes a long time. I notice the lag right after it detects > my hard drive, and then another lag after detecting the CDROM. Is there a > way around this, or should I just get used to getting up for a drink while > FreeBSD loads? Lemme guess... A single drive as master on the primary IDE controller, and CDROM as master on the secondary? It's probing for the slaves on the respective controllers. You can take out the secondary drives in the kernel config if you need it to boot faster. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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