Bob Goodwin wrote:
I'm not sure what I've done but suddenly the time to boot has gone
from about two minutes to what seems like about five minutes more.
Toward the end of the boot process it dwells on starting ntpd,
starting sendmail, and starting smb-client. The rest of the boot
process seems normal.
I was setting up a second computer with FC-2 for the grandsons and
decided to make a simple network to pass files between them and to
print from this one. After that exercise the slow boot seems to have
shown up on both. Other than that everything seems to work nicely
making it a non-problem I suppose, more an abnormality?
Both are old Pentium class computers with 300 - 400 megs of RAM.
Any suggestions appreciated.
Bob Goodwin Zuni, Virginia
There is an excellent chance that your pausing during boot is due to an
inability to look up your "simple network" ip address in DNS. Try
adding an entry to /etc/hosts for the ip address on that network. You
can also edit the kernel arguments in your grub menu interactively at
next boot, removing "rhgb quiet" so you can see what interface or
service is being started when the delay(s) occur.
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