Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2731 mails)

[Basil Chupin <blchupin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Sid Boyce wrote:

> I have been having problems with hwscan on boot of non-SuSE kernels 
> where it hangs forever, looked at /var/log/messages and found oops in 
> a module.
> I just moved hwscan out of /etc/init.d to somewhere where I could 
> retrieve it, so I could get the latest kernels booted. This script 
> also calls /usr/sbin/hwbootscan, but it wasn't necessary to do 
> anything with it.
> You didn't say what made you want to do this, be interested to know.
> Regards
> Sid.
>
> Basil Chupin wrote:
>
> > Would someone please remind me which control file, and where it 
> > resides, that needs to be massaged to stop the hardware scan on boot. 
> > (Which parameter to alter would also be helpful.) The RunLevel editor 
> > in the Control Centre refuses to switch off this check.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
What is making me do it? It seems to me that it is taking a bit longer 
to boot than it did with v8.1 and since my hardware does not change even 
on a six-monthly basis I thought performing the hwscan at each boot was 
a waste of time. As I said, someone had the same idea, asked the 
question, and received a response which I couldn't remember. Apart from 
that, there are no sinister motives behind my request :-).

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