hardware scan on boot

3 Dec 2003

      Hi;

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).
So my questions are
a) why do I need the "hardware scan"?  I have other distros that clearly 
do not do this.
b) which script does this?
c)  where in /etc might I find a script that lists the overall order of 
boot scripts particular to SuSE?

Thanks for help!

-- 
Tony Alfrey
tonyalfrey@earthlink.net
"I'd rather be sailing"