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Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 07:42:42 -0500
To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net>
Subject: Re: Two nits with -current 
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At 04:43 AM 10/10/98 -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
>In message <15435.908012186@time.cdrom.com> "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes:
>: I'm still seeing a very long delay before the first "changing root
>: device to ..." message on the installation floppy boot.  Is anyone
>: else seeing this on the 486/Pentium?
>
>Is this with or without a SCSI controller?  If it is with, then you
>are likely running into the SCSI_DELAY that happens after all the
>devices are probed.

Never seemed this long before.  Was expecting something to bomb.

Same Adaptec 2940.  Always trimmed the delay down to a more reasonable
number, currently just dropping a zero make me not mind watching it boot.  8-)

FWIW, the last few betas actually see if I have a CD every time, not the
hit or miss with 2.2.7.


Jeff Mountin - Unix Systems TCP/IP networking
jeff@mountin.net

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