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Old 06-12-2004, 12:02 AM   #1
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Red face Booting process takes long time.


It took me more than 5 mins to boot my system for Red Hat Linux 8.

I am using very few sytem initialization during booting.

Is there any process like fast boot. or skip the long booting process.

Please help me out of this..


Thanks.
 
Old 06-12-2004, 05:54 AM   #2
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What are your system specifications (what is the speed of your CPU, what devices do you have connected, such as USB, etc.)?

What is the output of dmesg after you boot (please post this)?

5 minutes is unreasonably long for booting, even on an old, slow machine; I would guess that RH is looking for a device that it is having trouble finding before it either succeeds or times out and moves on, but we can't know what that might be without seeing the boot output logs (dmesg).
 
Old 06-12-2004, 12:33 PM   #3
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Have you had a look in the BIOS?
 
Old 06-13-2004, 06:14 AM   #4
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My system is P IV 1.5 GH
I have not usb ports interected.

Boot process stops when the module inspection process come.

Please Help me out.
 
Old 06-13-2004, 06:22 AM   #5
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What do you mean, "the boot process stops"? I thought that you were able to boot, it just takes a long time. Is this not the case?

If you are able to boot, then you can open a terminal and type dmesg which will display the boot log, and you can then copy that output and post it here.

Because with that system, a slow boot like the one you describe means there's something wrong with the system, rather than something wrong with the boot process (which normally does not take that long). But it's impossible to begin to guess what without the actual error that is causing the boot process to hang or be delayed.

If you have to, get a pen and a piece of paper and write down what the last message on the screen says, and then post it.

We'd love to help you, but we're not psychic.
 
Old 06-13-2004, 06:29 AM   #6
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Stop mean stop for long time and then it go on boot.

There no error i find during boot.
 
Old 06-13-2004, 06:31 AM   #7
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When it stops for a long time, what is it doing during this time? If it's hanging for 5 minutes, what is the last message that is displayed for 5 minutes before a new message is displayed?
 
Old 06-13-2004, 06:46 AM   #8
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How can BIOS help me in this process
 
Old 06-13-2004, 11:35 AM   #9
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During boot up you can run interactive boot by type cap I and the system in my case will show and prompt you for each item being started with options to skip etc
 
  


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