>>> On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 5:15 pm, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 10:54:50PM - 0600, Magnus Boman wrote: >> Guys, >> >> When I hit ENTER at the GRUB screen, it takes 15- 20 seconds to >> load/analyze/mount my disk drives. I have the same issue with both my >> LAB server (DELL PowerEdge with SATA drives) and my laptop. >> >> How can I optimize this? How is it possible to boot KDE in 7 seconds >> (or 11 with the standard OSS build). I've tried to create a small boot >> partition with different file systems etc but to no avail. No mather >> what I do, it always takes a long time for this initial step. >> >> Any advice/tips/trix is appreciated. > > Make sure your IDE disk configuration in the BIOS is correct > and non- existant disks are disabled.
Marcus, The disks are configured correctly in BIOS and no 'non-existant' disks are in there... Is there anything else that can be done, such as choosing ext2 instead of ext3/reiser etc for the boot partition, only having 20mb for the /boot etc? Cheers, Magnus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
