From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 9 13:07:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA18529 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 13:07:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclops.xtra.co.nz (cyclops.xtra.co.nz [202.27.184.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA18524 for ; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 13:07:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker (210-55-210-87.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [210.55.210.87]) by cyclops.xtra.co.nz (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id IAA18641; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:07:19 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <199808092007.IAA18641@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: "Geoff Ludwiczak" Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:07:19 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: FreeBSD boot time Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <19980809173836.AAA14205@ha1.rdc1.bc.wave.home.com@cr649276-a.surrey1.bc.wave.home.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 9 Aug 98, at 10:35, Geoff Ludwiczak wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed FreeBSD 2.2.7, and I love the Operating System, but it's > a pain starting it up. It takes quite a while to probe my hard drives and > cdrom. Is there any way to fix this by maybe rebuilding the kernel > possibly??? Well, I've never tried this, but I have been told by others that this would reduce boot time. That said, I don't know what I'm talking about. But thankfully, I'll be corrected if wrong. The kernel, as it arrives, contains more devices than you would normally use. That's so it will work. Once you have it working, you can remove the devices you don't actually have. That should reduce the boot time. I haven't trid this yet, but I will. It's at the top of a long list of low priorities. -- Dan Langille DVL Software Limited http://www.dvl-software.com/freebsd : my [mis]adventures To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message