Hmmm. It looks like it's taking its time detecting the SCSI devices. All AIC79xx controllers, interestingly enough, although some of the servers are Dell (poweredge 1650, 1750 and 2650s) and some are completely different manufacturers. Thanks for the tip - I hadn't really though about it and therefore didn't appreciate what "quiet" meant... On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 14:09, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Mi, den 08.09.2004 schrieb Paul Furness um 10:49: > > > If it's any help, I've recently done a lot of installs of FC2 on our > > number crunching cluster and a few workstations, and I've noticed that > > on a dual CPU system, the boot up appears to hang at the "Red Hat > > nash..." line for a considerable period - over a minute on many of the > > systems - before boot up continues normally. > > > > Occasionally - about 1 in 6 new builds - the system does actually hang > > at that point (> 30 minutes left to itself), but on all occasions (so > > far) a power cycle gets past it. > > > Paul. > > It would be interesting to know what you see when booting with "quiet" > mode off. Means erasing the "quiet" parameter from the kernel boot line. > This sets the verbosity back to normal. > > Alexander >
