Boot delay on a SCSI system. Anyone know why?

[Thomas Cameron]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven W. Orr" <steveo at syslang.net>
To: "Fedora List" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 9:23 PM
Subject: Boot delay on a SCSI system. Anyone know why?


>I have just upgraded from Red Hat 9 to Core 3. I now see that when booting 
>I get the following behavior:
>
> vmlinuz loads
> initrd loads
> Then it hangs for A FEW MINUTES!
> Then everything sort of proceeds normally.
>
> Can someone please explain to me why such a delay exists and if it can be 
> somehow eliminated? Also, Is this a bug that needs to be reported?
>
> TIA

Once your machine has booted up, edit /boot/grub/grub.conf and remove "rhgb 
quiet" from the "kernel" line.

That will allow you to see what is going on during that "quiet" time.

Thomas