On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 15:10 +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote: > CentOS has recently started booting slower than it did before. Just when > X starts up and the screen is dark blue and the only thing is the hour > glass in the middle of screen turning round and round. It stays like > that for quite a while, and then later it will resume the normal boot > process. This long pause did not exist before. > > This seems to have started happening after I installed a FAT32 drive. So > my guess is that for whatever reason, it takes CentOS a while to mount > that drive. > Actually, I'm a little concerned that maybe CentOS is doing something to > the drive, some kind of directory reordering or something, because > whenever I look at the drive from Windows and use Diskeeper > (defragmenting software), it seems to have excessive fragmentation. > > But I don't know for sure that linux is doing anything to the drive, and > I don't even know for sure that it's because of the drive that the boot > process now has this added delay. > > So my first question, I suppose, is - What do I do to diagnose what is > causing the delay in my boot process? > I would recommend that you remark out the line that mounts that drive in /etc/fstab and reboot to see if it still does that. If it still happens, I would try to setup my machine to boot linux without that drive present and see if it happened. (That might entail changing some drive jumper settings). -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050909/832981b4/attachment-0005.sig>