From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 20 21:46:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA02950 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 21:46:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA02938 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 21:46:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA19138; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 14:15:33 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199808210445.OAA19138@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Jeff W." cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD takes 8 years to boot up In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 20 Aug 1998 20:56:37 MST." <3.0.5.32.19980820205637.00830ba0@ieng9.ucsd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 14:15:33 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Well, not literally, but a damn long time. I know I have to reconfigure > the kernel to only probe for the devices known to exist, but after doing > that, it still takes a long time. I notice the lag right after it detects > my hard drive, and then another lag after detecting the CDROM. Is there a > way around this, or should I just get used to getting up for a drink while > FreeBSD loads? The reason for the delay is it waits a while to detect other IDE devices you might have and waits a while before giving up. If you're only using one controller, then disable the other one in the config screen. If however you have, say, a HD on chain 1, and a CDROM on chain 2, then you need to explicitly disable 'disk wd?' entries. So, if you had a HD as master on chain 1 and a CDROM as master on chain to, change the lines in your kernel config file which read 'disk wd1 at wdc0 drive 1' to 'disk wd1 at wcd0 disable drive 1' do the same for the wd3 line. --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message