----- Original Message ----- From: "Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak" mjc@avtechpulse.com Date: Thursday, May 3, 2007 9:06 am Subject: Re: really REALLY slow computer To: For users of Fedora fedora-list@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