Disabling readahead

[Alexander Kahl]

Hi Paul,

you could also enter interactive mode during boot by pressing "I" after
the corresponding message is displayed (before the graphical boot) and
opt not to start readahead.

Regards
Alex

On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 11:32 +0000, Paul F. Johnson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have readahead currently running on my test rig (x86_64, rawhide), but it's
> currently giving me all sorts of problems, so much so that the box is pretty
> unusable (random hangs abound and hugely varied times to getting the desktop
> to boot - I've tried to file BZ reports, but the machine dies before I can).
> 
> I've read that readahead is currently broken in rawhide. Normally, my machine
> boots directly to runlevel 5. Can I alter on the kernel boot line for it jump
> to level 3? I can then disable the readahead service.
> 
> TIA
> 
> TTFN
> 
> Paul
> 
> P.S. This is holding up getting mono-1.2.6 and other packages into rawhide.
> 
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