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. -- Best regards, Robert FRANCHISSEUR ____ Apollo_gist :-)_______________________________________________ | Robert FRANCHISSEUR | | Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique - C.N.R.S. | | Equipe "R.A.M.S.E.S." - UPMC - Tour 45-55 3ème 315C | | Boite 99 - 4, place Jussieu F-75252 PARIS CEDEX 05 FRANCE | | Phone : +33 (0)1 44 27 73 87 fax : +33 (0)1 44 27 62 72 | | e-mail : robert at lmd . jussieu . fr http://www.lmd.jussieu.fr | -------------------------------------------------------------------