Still no joy. The CDROM still takes ages to mount. It almost as if something is tying up a bunch of low-level system stuff until it expires on a time-out. This is really interfering with using Mandrake 9.0. I might blame it on slow hardware (a 100MHz Pentium), except no such delays occur with SuSE Linux running on the same hardware (dual boot)
During boot, it takes ninety seconds to start up devFS. Is this normal? In case the trouble was with devFS (one of the differences between Mandrake and the SuSE system I have no trouble with), I tries doing without devFS by changing lilo.conf and rerunning lilo. Except that it didn try to start up d devFS, no difference. It still took two minutes and twenty-seven seconds to mount a CD. So devFS seems not to be the problem. Subsequent operations from the CD are slow too: 29 seconds to ls a directory, 14 seconds fo unmount the CD. It takes over two minutes to start Mandrake Command Centre. Most of the time it appears to be doing nothing. It takes a minute to get to the place where I can turn system services on and off. Under the curcumstances, comleting the installation of Mandrakd 9.0 is really hopeless. I did this in the hope of answering Miark question: On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:31:40PM -0500, Miark wrote: > Is autofs running? If so, try turning it off with drakxservices. > > Miark > Is drakxservices the thing you get to turn services on and off from the MCC? If so, autofs was not even listed as something to turn on or off. It really seems as though the system is locking up for times varying from thirty+seconds to over a minute now and then. Mounting a CD does eventually work (today I mounted an old OS/2 shareware CD flawlessly, except that it took four minutes). Now and then it does a read from the CD (as evidenced by the drive light), with *huge* time delays. I'm used to it doing a few reads in less than+a second on the old SuSE system wtill running on the same hardware (dual boot, SuSE and Mandrake) and returning immediately afteward with a successful mount. So I wonder what could cause the delays. I sat and watched in boot Mandrake 9.0+today. The first noticeable delay was a minute and a half or so starting devFS+demon. Id announces that it is starting the devFS demon, and about 90 seconds +later (times without a clock) it announces success. The only other delays during boot are understandable timeouts:waiting for adsl +to come up (the modem was off) and waiting to synchronize the clock (again, no +net). Is ninety-seconds a normal time to take to start up devFS? Could startup delay with devFS be related to the slow CD mount problem? Is it possible to reconfigure to skip devFS somehow (I suspect not, but I'll ask+anyway.) What does devFS do, anyway? -- hendrik
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