On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 5:15 pm, in message <20050916071505.GA11843@suse.de>, meissner@suse.de 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