How do you gusy get boots under a min?

[kaishiden]

I have a 1ghz cpu and 384 megs of ram,a nd i have friends who have windows 2K and their comp boots up in under a minute. Mine takes about 1:30 to 1:45. Any ideas? This was after a fresh install too.

 

[andrey]

If you have a network card, it will slow down boot time. If you have SCSI card, it will slow down boot time. If you have any device which requires extra initialization time, it will slow down boot time.

Just leave video card, RAM and hard drive inside of your computer. It will boot up in 10 seconds

 

[NiPeng]

Yeah.

Both my machines boot under a min.

Laptop, Celly 500 192 Megs (Squid + knfsd + postfix + leafnode + samba + courier)
Desktop Duron 700@999 256 Megs RH Linux

I did not do anything special.
Maybe your nic is configured for DHCP?
This slows things down.

Andrey's remark about scsi is correct but iirc you can adjust a time-out with some cards/drivers.
Don't know for sure, it has been a while.

 

[andrey]

Correct, certain SCSI card allow to adjust time out, but that only if SCSI hard doesn't have on-board BIOS. If it does though, 99.9% of SCSI BIOSes will
scan all possible bootable IDs to detect if there is a bootable device attached (hard drive, bootable CD-ROM, ZIP drive, etc.). If you know for sure that
there are no SCSI-bootable devices are attached, that feature can be disabled and significantly save boot up time.

 

[MiExStacY]

maybe someone can help you but mine boots in less then 30sec in XP with network card and everything.maybe your computer is looking for certain devices thats not install correctly or antivirus program

 

[Platypus]

If you have norton, delete it from startup. If you want msconfig, PM me, and install that. It pisses me off that 2k doesnt ship with that program.