Hi Andi, The slow start-up appears to be specific at the reiserfs, but I can check the other sides. The menu.lst contains: color white/blue black/light-gray default 0 timeout 8 gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/message title Linux kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 vga=0x317 splash=silent console=tty0 desktop \ resume=/dev/hda4 showopts initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd How would you suggest? Peter -----Original Message----- From: Andi Kleen [mailto:ak@suse.de] Sent: 06 October 2004 12:36 To: Chiu, PCM (Peter) Cc: 'suse-amd64@suse.com' Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Long start up time on Reiserfs

Can anyone shed some light to these issues?

It's probably not reiserfs that is slow, but something else in the bootup process. When the console of the system is redirected one often only sees the messages of the file system after bootup. I would remove any console=... settings in /boot/grub/menu.lst and recheck on the vga console. Normally systems boot faster, usual reasons for slowness is some DNS resolver or other network problem etc. during boot. -Andi