Dan, Boot into verbose mode by holding down the command key and the letter v at startup chime. This will give you a more detailed description of what is loading at boot time. Try this. Boot holding down the Shift key. This boots into Safe mode and does not load any directory info. See what happens. It might be DNS or directory access. I'm thinking it might be Directory access. If you want, open the Directory Access application from the Utilities folder and authenticate by the lock at the bottom. Uncheck NetInfo, LDAP (both versions) and NIS. Then restart. If this does not work, repost. Schoun
> From: Dan Crutcher <dcrutcher at loumag.com> > Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:53:48 -0400 > To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Subject: MacGroup: Startup delay > > 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>. | 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>.
