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Re: Slow boot with Kernel 2.6.18-194.x.y on SL5.4
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Pom Sailasuta <[log in to unmask]>
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Pom Sailasuta <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:17:37 -0700
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Can you please explain how to suppress 'quiet' during boot time?

thanks

Pom

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 4:38 AM, Alan Bartlett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> On 28 July 2010 02:21, Franchisseur Robert
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > On our Dell laptops E6400 or E6500 the boot process is very long.  It
> > takes ~ 40 seconds between:
> >
> > Redhat NASH ....
> > and
> > INIT:
> >
> > if we suppress 'quiet' we see that the problem is
> > after the line :
> >
> > device-mapper : dm-raid45 : initialized V0.25941
> > Waiting for driver initialization
>
> Robert,
>
> This is a known issue, with a bug logged upstream [1] that has
> recently been "CLOSED WONTFIX".
>
> I don't have a solution to this but would like to comment that you are
> seeing twice the average delay of everyone else with whom I have
> discussed this issue. Typically it is an 18 - 20 second delay.
>
> Alan.
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499955
>

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