I took the amd service out of startup and my system works well.
I also made a shell script in the /etc/rc.d with the ability to
either shutdown or re-boot the machine. Then put a Kde lonk on the
desktop
to these scripts. My wife finds them much easier to use :-)
now i just need to find a way to auto login...
My IpChains script works well, other 3 Window's 98 machines access the
net
through the Linux Machine...
mike
Victor Richardson wrote:
>
> I have the same problem, except it takes minutes. "amd" is the automount
> service that (guess) automounts your floppy, cd-rom, drives, and any
> other device instead of having to type "mnt /dev/cdrom" or "mount /cd"
> for whatever device you want to use. It may have been corrupted during
> install. I suppose teh best way to cure the problem is re-install(rpm)
> the apm package. I would suggest removing the old one first, starting
> with a clean slate usually best.
>
> If you just want to prevent it from starting at boot, enter the shift key
> + "I" at the "Welcome to Linux-Mandrake, Press "I" to enter Interactive
> Mode" segment during the boot and it will take you into a grahical
> version of Linuxconf Operation Mode. Highlight "Configure the
> workstation", then scroll down to "Control Service Activity" under
> Control Panel. It will bring up a screen with all the services loaded on
> your system and "amd" will be first. It is currently set to "automatic",
> but if you highlight it and press enter, you can disable it at startup by
> moving the cursor under the "X" in startup and pressing the spacebar,
> then tab to accept and quit out of everything. It will then put you
> through a step by step starup for each service where you can choose what
> you want started(this time). If you don't want to go through that, turn
> your computer off then on again. It should boot without starting amd.
> Although, you will have to mount each device when you want to use it from
> then.
>
> Vic
>
> Melissa and Michael Grover wrote:
>
> > When my Mandrake 7.0 machine boots up, it will sit at "Starting amd:"
> > for about 45 seconds, the continue on. the service starts ok.
> >
> > On another machine, their is no delay at all.
> >
> > Anybody know where I can get more information on what amd is?
> >
> > mike...
