When my wife's iMac starts up (into 10.2.7) the blue progress bar pauses for about a minute at the point where it says it is "waiting for network initialization." It then proceeds to boot and all works properly.
My Powerbook G4, on the same network and booting into the same OS version, zips right through that phase of startup without any noticeable delay. Two other older iMacs on the network also start up into OS 9 without noticeable delays. I have checked System Preferences on my wife's machine that one would think might be responsible -- Network, Sharing, etc. -- but find nothing different in the way they are set up. There are four computers on our home network, all Macs. The router is a Belkin 54g wireless, with all of us wired via Ethernet (my PB is the only one that occasionally uses the wi-fi). Does anyone know what might account for this delay on the iMac? What exactly is going on during boot-up when the system is "waiting for network initialization"? Dan | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be October 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
