Followup - it seems to be scsi: On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 11:12:58PM -0700, Rick Johnson wrote: > Mail Lists wrote: > > Red Hat nash version 3.5.22 starting > > > > ** (pauses for a couple of minutes before ... ) ** > > > > Edit /boot/grub/grub.conf and remove the "quiet" arguments in the kernel Done - > On some of my Dell systems, the kernel will pause on the IDE controller yes was a short pause for ide - no more than a second or 2. > > Also, most SCSI systems will pause while the SCSI bus is scanned and the This is the real culprit - has 2 adaptec controllers - 1 onboard and one card. My memory could be crusty but it _seems_ like this is slower than under FC1 - but not really sure. Anyway, thanks for comments - now if I could just figure out why yum update wont update the kernel-doc from 2.6.5 to 2.6.6 ... Thanks kindly, gene/
