[indiana-discuss] opensolaris2009.06 slow boot

[Nischal]

problem solved!

actually i had not disabled the floppy drive in the BIOS (i don't have a 
floppy drive). The hal daemon was trying to access the floppy drive 
because it was enabled in BIOS.

the same thing was probably happening in the older version of 
OpenSolaris. But in this release, hal was added as a dependency to the 
gdm. so i couldn't get the login screen until hald returned 
unsuccessfully. this bug was reported long back: 
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6294851

thanks to everyone who helped...

regards,
Nischal E Rao

Gilles Gravier wrote:
> Hi!
>
> This seems like a situation I've had where the automounter waits for 
> some networking timemout before ketting GDM start. Are your homes 
> automounted? Try disabling the automunter?
>
>
> Gilles
>
> ------- Original message -------
>> From: Nischal <Nischal.Rao at Sun.COM>
>> Cc: indiana-discuss at opensolaris.org
>> Sent: 3/6/'09,  18:09
>>
>> Nice solution... :)
>>
>> ok... I tried the text boot. the mounting of zfs filesytem and other 
>> regular stuff take about 40seconds and then i see the console login 
>> prompt for about 1min. and then i am redirected to the graphical 
>> login. there are no error messages at login.....
>>
>> i guess some unnecessary back ground work goes on at login....
>>
>> regards,
>> Nischal E Rao
>> Gilles Gravier wrote:
>>> Hum... Solution : shutdown more often than you boot. :)
>>>
>>> Seriously... I'm on a 1.5 GB RAM Toshiba Tecra M2... and I find it 
>>> boots just as fast as it always has.
>>>
>>> Maybe it's waiting on network timeout?
>>>
>>> Gilles.
>>>
>>> Nischal wrote:
>>>> i upgraded my opensolaris from 2008.11 to 2009.06 today and i am 
>>>> really disappointed with boot process. It is painfully slow. On my 
>>>> 2GB ram system it takes about 2 minutes to boot. is there any way 
>>>> to increase the speed?
>>>> Oh, by the way shutdown is extremely fast. :)
>>>>
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