From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 16 13:27:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from minubian.houabg.com (minubian.houabg.com [206.109.247.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 874D537B8A4 for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 13:27:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dchapman@houabg.com) Received: from houcbs2.houabg.com (mailhost.houabg.com [206.109.247.20]) by minubian.houabg.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA16448 for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 16:22:55 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dchapman@houabg.com) Received: from 216-118-21-147.pdq.net by houcbs2.houabg.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.0.1457.7) id KX89L225; Tue, 16 May 2000 15:30:42 -0500 Message-ID: <015001bfbf75$407743a0$931576d8@inethouston.net> From: "David W. Chapman Jr." To: "Mike Muir" , "J McKitrick" , "stable" References: <20000516173854.A9898@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <007301bfbf74$53bd9c30$411415d1@haus> Subject: Re: shorter boot time? Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 15:28:06 -0500 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 5.50.4029.2901 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4029.2901 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You can set ide_delay to something like 2000 instead of the default of 8 seconds ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Muir" To: "J McKitrick" ; "stable" Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 3:21 PM Subject: Re: shorter boot time? > > > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message