Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 19:40:03 -0600 (MDT) From: allen campbell <allenc@verinet.com> To: luomat+FreeBSD@luomat.peak.org Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Major hardware reorganization... Message-ID: <199806190140.TAA02889@struct.> In-Reply-To: <199806181637.MAA27806@luomat.peak.org>
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> > Win95 is the only OS that supports all my hardware, and for > > certain operations is the fastest (it definitely boots the quickest > > of the 3 OS's, BSD second, Win NT third) > > Well Win95 should reboot fast, given all the the times it has to reboot (not > a flame, just a fact.... many/most changes under Win95 require a reboot to > update the system). > > BSD does take quite awhile to boot... I wonder how much of it might be > trimmed down if a custom kernel was built to the specifics of only what > hardware was on the machine. If your not up to building your own kernel yet you can get some of the boot time improvement by removing unnecessary devices from the boot configuration. The wd1 (secondary IDE controller) has a lengthy probe for some reason. I have seen this take as long as thirty seconds with no wd1 devices on a mtech 486/133 w/PCI. -- Allen Campbell allenc@verinet.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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