Re: Slow boot initialisation

2002-07-14 Thread Steve Mazerski
Here's some further information: On Saturday 13 July 2002 23:01, Steve Mazerski wrote: (...) > Every time the "waiting" symbols (i.e. the ASCII chars |/-\ ) appears, the > system seems to be doing a series of seeks to each hard disks > alternatively, but nothing else apart from keeping the "waiti

Slow boot initialisation

2002-07-13 Thread Steve Mazerski
I'm considering replacing Linux with FreeBSD and have just made a test installation on my "desktop" machine. This is an unspectacular KMD K6 with two IDE drives and no exotic hardware. The installation seems to have been successful. I installed 4.6-RELEASE on a free primary partition (ca. 1 GB)