-- Le (On) 2010-07-28 +0100 à (at) 12:38:28 Alan Bartlett écrivit (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:

> > <snip>

> 
> 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.
> 

       Thanks Alan,

       I tried on a Dell desktop Optiplex 760 and it takes almost the
       same time ~ 35 seconds.

> <snip>

-- 
                 Best regards,
                               Robert FRANCHISSEUR

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