The Tuesday 2003-12-02 at 17:08 -0800, Tony Alfrey wrote:
When my SuSE 8.1 box boots, It gets to "starting hardware scan on boot" and it takes a very long time to slog through this (several minutes) and earlier today, it never made it through. The only solution I found was to "reload" SuSE (do an update of all packages).
Ah, the "windows" solution. An absolute overkill... You could have started the rescue system, mounted the root partition, and erase the link to hwscan. Then, after booting, remove the service with yast or chkconfig.
So my questions are a) why do I need the "hardware scan"? I have other distros that clearly do not do this.
A convenience... I disabled it time ago.
b) which script does this?
The names are listed as they execute. hwscan or similar.
c) where in /etc might I find a script that lists the overall order of boot scripts particular to SuSE?
No such list, the order may change. Read "man init.d" and the SuSE boot concept in the SuSE administration manual. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson