Mandrake 10 SATA +slow boot solution

Running mandrake 10 on AN7 XP3200+ Seagate SATA 160 MB.
Booting was really slow.

In /var/log/syslog I found a lot of .

kernel: hdg: no response (status = 0xfe)

I could not figure out what it was thinking about. I have only a dvddrive (hdd)
and a harddisk (hde) so I wondered what this hdg (nothing) should be ...

On the net I found out that this problem could be solved by modifying
the /etc/lilo.conf file so append also contains the following line

hdg=none

(The harddrive ofcourse does not have to be hdg to do that operation)

Boot is still a bit slow - but much faster (about 20 sec)

C++Boar

Another improvement on my machine....

Bringing up interface eth0:

It was slow - took 6-12 seconds.

I am using netgear router. Beside sharing internet access I used to have it as a DHCP-server - which I changed so my computers now have statically IPs. Don't know how it could take so long to get an IP from the router ... ??

But now I am quite happy about my bootitme (and mandrake 10 system)