Slow boot

[Jim Higson]

On Thursday 26 May 2005 06:01, Tony Nelson wrote:
> It irritates me that during boot there is about 100 seconds where nothing
> happens.  Looking at the log, and also when booting without "quiet", I see
> that the time is spent repeatedly probing my IDE bus for devices that
> aren't there.  I have an ASUS MB with 2 IDE controllers, with the HD on the
> faster Promise controller rather than the VIA one, so to Linux the HD is
> hde, hdc is the CD, and  hda, hdb and hdd are unused.  Linux tries hard to
> find hda and hdb, but doesn't mind that hdd doesn't exist (nor for that
> matter, do hdf, hdg, and hdh).  The unused IDE ports in the BIOS are
> disabled, but that doesn't make any difference.  grub.conf has a comment
> saying boot=/dev/hde3, which is correct, and actually refers to it as
> (hd0,2), so I assume that grub.conf is correct and tells the right things
> to Linux.

It doesn't answer your question, but you might find this interesting:

http://www.bootchart.org/

-- 
Jim