Remove "quiet" from /boot/grub/grub.conf. On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Pom Sailasuta wrote: > 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]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: > On 28 July 2010 02:21, Franchisseur Robert > <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[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 > > -- /------------------------------------+-------------------------\ |Stephen J. Gowdy | CERN Office: 8-1-11| |http://cern.ch/gowdy/ | CH-1211 Geneva 23 | | | Switzerland | |EMail: [log in to unmask] | Tel: +41 76 487 2215 | \------------------------------------+-------------------------/