Hello,

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

and it seems the system is waiting some timeout.

Does  anyone know if there is a Bios or kernel parameter to change to
have a faster boot ?

Thanks for your help.

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                               Robert FRANCHISSEUR

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