On Thursday 26 May 2005 06:01, Tony Nelson wrote: > It irritates me that during boot there is about 100 seconds where nothing > happens. Looking at the log, and also when booting without "quiet", I see > that the time is spent repeatedly probing my IDE bus for devices that > aren't there. I have an ASUS MB with 2 IDE controllers, with the HD on the > faster Promise controller rather than the VIA one, so to Linux the HD is > hde, hdc is the CD, and hda, hdb and hdd are unused. Linux tries hard to > find hda and hdb, but doesn't mind that hdd doesn't exist (nor for that > matter, do hdf, hdg, and hdh). The unused IDE ports in the BIOS are > disabled, but that doesn't make any difference. grub.conf has a comment > saying boot=/dev/hde3, which is correct, and actually refers to it as > (hd0,2), so I assume that grub.conf is correct and tells the right things > to Linux. It doesn't answer your question, but you might find this interesting: http://www.bootchart.org/ -- Jim
