----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak" <mjc(a)avtechpulse.com>
Date: Thursday, May 3, 2007 9:06 am
Subject: Re: really REALLY slow computer
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
>>> 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)?
Yes we are talking about a dc7700p and it a brand new machine so I
would hope it has a very recent BIOS if not the latest but I will
check anyhow.
Also, I boot my DC7700 with the "pci=noacpi acpi=off"
kernel
parameters.
I've already tried booting with the acpi=off kernel parameter but
tomorrow I will try with the pci=noacpi option. I am also going to try
the hda=noprobe (actually in my case I think it should be
sdb=noprobe?) I have also seen sugestion to try pci=conf1 and I might
try the pae kernel but I think that only makes a difference if you
have > 2G of RAM and I have 2G.
Steve