From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 16 13:21:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from april.cwnet.com (april.cwnet.com [205.162.110.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68C3937BB67 for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 13:21:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mmuir@es.co.nz) Received: from haus (usr2-d17.stk.cwnet.com [209.21.20.65]) by april.cwnet.com (8.9.0/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA12858; Tue, 16 May 2000 13:16:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <007301bfbf74$53bd9c30$411415d1@haus> From: "Mike Muir" To: "J McKitrick" , "stable" References: <20000516173854.A9898@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Subject: Re: shorter boot time? Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 13:21:04 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have seen a few remarks on the boot time for 4.0. This is strange, > because mine seems about the same. Also, it seems to have a rather long > delay about halfway through the boot process. I can't figure out what it > is... i know if the zip is attached (parallel port) it is checked during > this interval, but something else is going on that seems to slow my machine > down. Is there a way of figuring it out? > > Under 3.4, there was a check for 2 IDE drives in GENERIC, and when this was > removed, the boot process was significantly faster. But i did not see such > an option for 4.0 to disable probing a second IDE, if that is even the > issue. Any ideas? The small pause for me was for ATA devices. I no longer need them (no ide/atapi devices in system) and the boot just flies right past that point. The boot time on 4.0 is _significantly_ faster for me. -mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message