Dave Gutteridge wrote: > > If I boot with "rhgb quiet" off, my computer boots in 1 minute and 30 > seconds. > > If I boot with "rhgb quiet" on, my computer boots in 3m11s. That's a > long time to wait. > > Significantly, when booting with "rhgb quiet", right at the moment X > takes over, there is a 1m36s pause where the screen is blank except > for the hourglass cursor turning around and around. > > Of course, if my main priority was to simply boot quickly, I would > simply remove the "rhgb quiet" option from the boot process. And I'm > not opposed to doing that. > > However, this pause only started happening recently, so I wonder why > it exists at all. > > When booting with "rhgb quiet" off, I tried to look for any errors or > indications of a problem, but it seemed to boot mostly without pause > or error. There was one message which was like an error warning, which > said something about a "microcode device doesn't exist?". But text was > moving across the screen quickly and I couldn't write down exactly > what it said. > > Before I give in and remove the "rhgb quiet" option permanently, is > there any way I might be able to diagnose and fix this delay problem? > I'd rather be telling the computer how to boot, instead of it telling me. > > Dave > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > By chance, did this slowdown or hang or whatever begin after you made a change(s) to your /etc/resolv.conf or /etc/hosts or /etc/sysconfig/network files? Specifically, check this warning in /etc/hosts. cat /etc/hosts # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost FOR SURE, a problem with the resolver will cause sendmail to hang for approx 60 seconds.