From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 5 23:36:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tele-post-20.mail.demon.net (tele-post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 809B515891 for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 23:36:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by tele-post-20.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 10fHlT-0000LM-0K; Thu, 6 May 1999 06:36:12 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from support-3.uk.radan.com (support-3 [193.114.228.220]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id HAA01660; Thu, 6 May 1999 07:35:39 +0100 Received: from uk.radan.com by support-3.uk.radan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id HAA01688; Thu, 6 May 1999 07:35:37 +0100 Message-ID: <373137F5.3DE5DC6A@uk.radan.com> Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 07:34:29 +0100 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: Questions Subject: Re: delays during boot References: <37305116.DCBB1666@castle.net> <19990506085525.J40359@freebie.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote: > > 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. > On a closely related note, what is SCSI_DELAY for? The message says "waiting for SCSI devices to settle" but what exactly is "settling"? I can't set mine any lower than 10 seconds and get successful probes *every* boot. > 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 -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message