Hey guys,

I have recently taken the plunge and tried out gentoo. Its actaully pretty nice minus the compile times. But I have one issue that I don't know what to do about and my thread on the gentoo forums goes unanswered I thought I would look here for some help

When I'm booting, the part at the start where it says audit(xxxxx): initilised
right after that line it takes about 10 sec or so. If I boot with the kernel outputting info (ie: not use quiet as a kernel option), it spits out a lot of stuff in the mean time.

I do not have a initial ram disk, I dont really know what its for and how to make one. Is my long audit because of a missing initrd, or I have too much stuff compiled into the kernel? It never takes this long on other distros that I have tried. Or is there yet another reason?

Thanks for any help,

Dave