Le mercredi 03 décembre 2003, 02:30:28 ou environ Philipp Thomas a écrit:

Tony Alfrey [2 Dec 2003 17:08:23 -0800]:

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a) why do I need the "hardware scan"? I have other distros that clearly do not do this.

Many users want the automatic detection of new hardware like they're used to under Win*.

Now I know what's the use of that damned "hardware scan". It is what we can call the "gameboy syndrom". Now I'll type use 'hwinfo --short --usb' if I want to know on which /dev/sd* my usb storage disk is linked.

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b) which script does this?

/etc/init.d/hwscan. If you want to disable the scan at boot-up, just issue an 'insserv -r hwscan'.

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c) where in /etc might I find a script that lists the overall order of boot scripts particular to SuSE?

I know of none.

Philipp

-- Philipp Thomas work: pthomas AT suse DOT de SUSE LINUX AG private: philipp DOT thomas AT t-link DOT de

A practical question. I have a "USB Flash-Disk". I can mount it without problem on all stations I know but my Dell Latitude laptop boot-up (SuSE-8.2) gets completely stucked during the "hardware scan" (and also if I type 'hwinfo -usb' of course). The only way out is a hard reboot (fortunately I have journaling file-system now). If it happens with 'hwinfo --usb' or with mount '/media/sda1' I can't event stop the process with a 'kill' instruction (strange isn't it Watson)?. I don't have that problem with the same USB-Disk on other posts with SuSE-8.2 too, SuSE-8.1 or redHat-7.1. Thus it looks like it is a problem of detection of a particular USB device (on the Dell laptop I have a one port USB1). Somebody recommended me SuSE-9.0 but it is like replacing Windows-200* with Windows-2010. -- Alain Barthélemy cassandre@bartydeux.be http://bartydeux.be Linux User #315631

Thanks Bruce, Phillip and jim for your help with this! Nice to clean out slow stuff! -- Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey@earthlink.net "I'd rather be sailing"

On Tuesday 02 December 2003 10:37 pm, pinto wrote:

On Wednesday 03 December 2003 01:08 am, Tony Alfrey wrote:

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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)

Dear Mr Alfrey,

My box running SuSE 8.0 behaves exactly the same BUT, if I un-plug USB cable from usb socket in my ISDN Modem, then, booting loads perfectly.

Frankly, I suspected that such a thing might be the culprit, but I see that usb hotplug services load OK in the boot messages. But that may be different than a subsequent device scan. However, Bruce's suggestion about using the runlevel editor to just throw out anything that I really don't use has been a big help in speeding things up and making boot-up foolproof. Thanks! -- Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey@earthlink.net "I'd rather be sailing"