I have InsightBB (which is mostly just a front end for the AT&T
network). You can circumvent this startup problem with a router. You
still leave the DHCP client blank, but the Router will assign an IP
address first try anyway. I have never had to wait for 10.1.5 or Jaguar
to timeout (my machine is set from XPF to boot verbose). It takes 2:47
for mine to boot into Jaguar, and 2:00 flat for OS9.1.
S900
PowerLogix G3 225(O/C 313)/512KB L2, 384MB, 20GB, LG CD-RW, 650MB
Seagate
-using Sonnet Tempo ATA/66
-IMS TT128 4MB (non apple)
-750MB Quantum, 12X Apple CD-ROM(from PM6500) on internal SCSI
-Robyn
On Tuesday, September 17, 2002, at 05:24 AM, Will Schoumaker wrote:
> My Machine takes almost exactly 3 min to startup OSX 10.2. It is
> perhaps 30 secs longer then on the 2 gb IBM SCSI drive I ran OSX on
> for 2 years or so. I expected it to be faster but it's not for a
> number of reasons. My Sonnet ATA 66 PCI card and IDE drive are seen as
> SCSI by OSX and I get a grey screen at startup that lasts 20 sec in
> OSX. It's only 10 sec in OS 9.x. (the VST ATA PCI card is seen as IDE
> in OSX so shouldn't have this issue but has PCI slot issues instead)
> The SCSI drive didn't have this lag small as it is. OSX startup for me
> also has another problem which OS 9 doesn't. This is thanks to AT&T
> broadband service odd as that sounds. OSX looks for the Network IP
> address while starting up. I used to be able to setup broadband by
> either putting in the IP address or by using a DHCP Client ID number.
> AT&T now says to leave this blank and it will be filled in by the
> network after the machine starts up. Which it does. Apple says the fix
> for the machine setting there with Networking initializing for long
> periods is to put in an IP address or your DHCP Client address. You
> see the problem...it takes 40-50 sec before it times out and continues
> loading. So be it...somethings are out of our hands...
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