Re: really REALLY slow computer

[Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak]

> >> It starts to boot OK but really bogs down when it gets to
> INIT and then
> >> udev times out which takes about 10mins. I was hoping the 2.6.21 kernel
> >> was going to help but it did not. Everything seems to function OK when
> >> it finally boots but it juuussssttt ttttoooo ssslllooowwww. AAAAGGGGHHHH!
> >>
> > Is there anything in the logs about timeouts during boot?
> > /var/log/dmesg may have some clues...
>  
>  Nothing about timeouts. Here are a few things from dmesg that might be
>  of interest. 

Make sure you have the latest BIOS available for the DC7700 (we are 
talking about a DC7700, right)?

Also, I boot my DC7700 with the "pci=noacpi acpi=off" kernel parameters.


- Mike