From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 17 0:58: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DD5137BA91 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 00:57:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michel@lpthe.jussieu.fr) Received: from parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.1]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.10.0/jtpda-5.3.3) with ESMTP id e4H7vm914311 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 09:57:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from rose.lpthe.jussieu.fr ([134.157.10.102]) by parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (8.9.1a/jtpda-5.3.1) with ESMTP id JAA23847 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 09:57:36 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from michel@localhost) by rose.lpthe.jussieu.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA00474 for stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 17 May 2000 09:57:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from michel) Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 09:57:51 +0200 From: Michel Talon To: stable Subject: Re: shorter boot time? Message-ID: <20000517095751.A453@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Mail-Followup-To: stable References: <20000516173854.A9898@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <007301bfbf74$53bd9c30$411415d1@haus> <14625.44940.974136.577012@onceler.kcilink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <14625.44940.974136.577012@onceler.kcilink.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 04:29:00PM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote: > >>>>> "MM" == Mike Muir writes: > > MM> The small pause for me was for ATA devices. I no longer need them (no > MM> ide/atapi devices in system) and the boot just flies right past that point. > MM> The boot time on 4.0 is _significantly_ faster for me. > > I run 3.4-STABLE and had a long pause detecting the second drive on my > second IDE controller. Since that device doesn't exist, I removed it > from my kernel and now it doesn't pause looking for it. I have a machine with SCSI disk, but IDE Cdrom, so i cannot remove the ata driver. Well, it pauses for a very long time probing IDE disks. I have not found any way to reduce this delay. Under 3.4, there was no such problem. -- Michel Talon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message