----- Original Message ----- From: "Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak" <mjc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thursday, May 3, 2007 9:06 am Subject: Re: really REALLY slow computer To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > >>> It starts to boot OK but really bogs down when it gets to INIT > and then > >>> udev times out which takes about 10mins. I was hoping the > 2.6.21 kernel > >>> was going to help but it did not. Everything seems to function > OK when > >>> it finally boots but it juuussssttt ttttoooo ssslllooowwww. > AAAAGGGGHHHH!>>> > >> Is there anything in the logs about timeouts during boot? > >> /var/log/dmesg may have some clues... > > > > Nothing about timeouts. Here are a few things from dmesg that > might be > > of interest. > > > Make sure you have the latest BIOS available for the DC7700 (we > are > talking about a DC7700, right)? Yes we are talking about a dc7700p and it a brand new machine so I would hope it has a very recent BIOS if not the latest but I will check anyhow. > Also, I boot my DC7700 with the "pci=noacpi acpi=off" kernel > parameters. I've already tried booting with the acpi=off kernel parameter but tomorrow I will try with the pci=noacpi option. I am also going to try the hda=noprobe (actually in my case I think it should be sdb=noprobe?) I have also seen sugestion to try pci=conf1 and I might try the pae kernel but I think that only makes a difference if you have > 2G of RAM and I have 2G. Steve
