On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Gil Baron W0MN wrote:
> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 22:22:31 -0500
> From: Gil Baron W0MN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: AA/MandrakeExpert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [expert] SLOW boot
>
> My boot proceeds pretty well until it gets to the starting AMD stage. What
> is AMD and why would it take over 1 minute at times? Sometimes it is
> instantaneous or nearly so.
>
According to the manpage of amd, it is an automatic filesystem mounter,
that fakes itself as an nfs server, I have had similar symtoms in the
past, but stopped using amd. The mere act of faking an nfs server is
probably the reason for it's erratic behavior, as conditions such as
network connectivity, and other such variables become hard to juggle.
Another possible cause is an error in /etc/hosts, as it heavily relies on
this file. My recommendation is to disable it entirely.
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Regards,
Ellick Chan
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Jul 17
