Dear Rony,
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 Rony Bill wrote :
amit453d wrote:
Hi all, I have loaded the winXp SP2 and RHEL WS 4.0 dual booting using grub, problem is booting to linux takes 15-20 minutes. Booting to WinXP and coming out of linux is fast. motherboard is 915 GAV. I would like to know whether this is normal for RHEL WS 4.0 booting or there is some problem. If so kindly help me out. Cheers, Amit Das.
Is your RHEL trying to configure some device like....say....eth0? If you set it to dhcp and there is nothing connected, it may wait to find a dhcp server or you got a lan active and its not setup for linux???? Turn sendmail service off too. It is not needed. Find out the exact device/program where it takes time to load during bootup. If its not needed, get it off.
Regards,
Rony.
As soon as it starts to boot the following reasons could lead to consume time...
1) It tries to configure LAN card through DHCP. 2) Hostname issue, Sendmail is confused between "/etc/hosts" and "/etc/sysconfig/network" where normally we define hostname. 3) swap space partition.
the thing is while booting you will get a GUI screen and would'nt know what actually consuming time behind the screen, so do "CTRL+F1" and you will see, the services.
hope this this will help.
regards,
Bimal Pandit