From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 5 16:25:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4D7D14DD9 for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 16:25:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id IAA20609; Thu, 6 May 1999 08:55:25 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id IAA54414; Thu, 6 May 1999 08:55:25 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 08:55:25 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Jonathan Chen Cc: gkaplan , Questions Subject: Re: delays during boot Message-ID: <19990506085525.J40359@freebie.lemis.com> References: <37305116.DCBB1666@castle.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Jonathan Chen on Thu, May 06, 1999 at 08:59:31AM +1200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 6 May 1999 at 8:59:31 +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: > 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. You can also disable them in UserConfig. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message