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Date:      Tue, 16 May 2000 13:21:04 -0700
From:      "Mike Muir" <mmuir@es.co.nz>
To:        "J McKitrick" <jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org>, "stable" <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: shorter boot time?
Message-ID:  <007301bfbf74$53bd9c30$411415d1@haus>
References:  <20000516173854.A9898@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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> 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



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