From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 5 14: 7: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (pinnacle.internet.co.nz [210.48.55.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62B8614C86 for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 14:03:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.2]) by kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA22648; Thu, 6 May 1999 08:59:31 +1200 (NZST) Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 08:59:31 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: gkaplan Cc: Questions Subject: Re: delays during boot In-Reply-To: <37305116.DCBB1666@castle.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 5 May 1999, gkaplan wrote: > During the boot process for 2.2.8 there are two significant delays is > the startup process. They both seem to relate to disk initialization > (ide) the combined time of delay is 30 to 45 second. Is there a > modification the I could make to the startup that would shorten this > time without causing an undesirable side effect. You could compile a custom kernel so that it doesn't probe for non-existent IDE devices. Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Clothes do make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message