(SOLVED) Delay at grub: "waiting for device sda to appear (timeout 1 minute)"

[patomas]

I ve looking but i didnt found anything (surely my fault)...does any one know haw to make pclos to boot faster??

Thanks

[AS]

I ve looking but i didnt found anything (surely my fault)...does any one know haw to make pclos to boot faster??

Thanks

Hi patomas,

what DE are you running ? KDE, LXDE, ... ? How much time is currently required to boot ?

e4rat is a tool that may help if you are using rotational hard disks (not SSD or USB flash), EDIT: available in repo:
http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

see also:
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,89607.msg797753.html#msg797753

AS

[bicol_willem]

That is going to cost you!   A racy processor and ton's of memory tend to help here  

But I guess that is not what you mean .... Hope some help comes by although I do believe this is not a easy task on a slower machine. Some start ups you can disable though in Control center > Manage system services. I wouldn't know right now which one's would help you here.

EDIT: Oops, this "as" must have a racy processor as well! 

[AS]

EDIT: Oops, this "as" must have a racy processor as well! 

 

@patomas,
Please note that e4rat works only for ext4 filesystem (which is the default for PCLinuxOS)

[bicol_willem]

Is this out of testing as?  I don't see it in my repo ...    patomas might have the same problem... (finding it)

[AS]

Is this out of testing as?  I don't see it in my repo ...    patomas might have the same problem... (finding it)

... mmmh ... may be, effectively i have had it from gseaman when he was testing it ... let me check ...

[AS]

Is this out of testing as?  I don't see it in my repo ...    patomas might have the same problem... (finding it)

... mmmh ... may be, effectively i have had it from gseaman when he was testing it ... let me check ...

No, it's available on 64bit system, but not on 32bit

[patomas]

I have KDE and the boot takes a minute in a half + o -. I was thinking more if you know some/s service/s that you can remove from the start up without any danger.

[AS]

open a terminal konsole, su to root using su or su -, provide the root password when required, then copy & paste the following command:

chkconfig --list | grep ":on"

post here the result, so we can see what services are active on your system.

[patomas]

open a terminal konsole, su to root using su or su -, provide the root password when required, then copy & paste the following command:

chkconfig --list | grep ":on"

post here the result, so we can see what services are active on your system.

avahi-daemon    0:desactivado   1:desactivado   2:desactivado   3:activo        4:desactivado   5:activo        6:desactivado   7:desactivado
crond           0:desactivado   1:desactivado   2:activo        3:activo        4:activo5:activo        6:desactivado   7:desactivado
haldaemon       0:desactivado   1:desactivado   2:activo        3:activo        4:activo5:activo        6:desactivado   7:activo
netconsole      0:desactivado   1:desactivado   2:desactivado   3:desactivado   4:desactivado   5:desactivado   6:desactivado   7:desactivado
nfs-common      0:desactivado   1:desactivado   2:desactivado   3:desactivado   4:desactivado   5:desactivado   6:desactivado   7:desactivado
oki4daemon      0:desactivado   1:desactivado   2:desactivado   3:desactivado   4:desactivado   5:desactivado   6:desactivado   7:desactivado
partmon         0:desactivado   1:desactivado   2:desactivado   3:desactivado   4:desactivado   5:desactivado   6:desactivado   7:desactivado
resolvconf      0:desactivado   1:desactivado   2:activo        3:activo        4:activo5:activo        6:desactivado   7:desactivado

[Texstar]

I have KDE and the boot takes a minute in a half + o -. I was thinking more if you know some/s service/s that you can remove from the start up without any danger.

It depends on your cpu and your hard drive. I have a quad core and ssd drive and I boot from grub to the KDE desktop in 12 seconds.

[Texstar]

I do not recommend you use it unless you have a throw away partition because I experienced file corruption on one installation. This is why it is only for 64bit test PCLinuxOS and not in the normal repository.

[AS]

I do not recommend you use it unless you have a throw away partition because I experienced file corruption on one installation. This is why it is only for 64bit test PCLinuxOS and not in the normal repository.

Thanks for info.

e4rat is installed on my system, and apparently running properly from months. From time to time I repeat the optimization because of updates, never experienced issues, of course I have full backup of my system, just in case.

[AS]

open a terminal konsole, su to root using su or su -, provide the root password when required, then copy & paste the following command:

chkconfig --list | grep ":on"

post here the result, so we can see what services are active on your system.

avahi-daemon    0:desactivado   1:desactivado   2:desactivado   3:activo        4:desactivado   5:activo        6:desactivado   7:desactivado
crond           0:desactivado   1:desactivado   2:activo        3:activo        4:activo5:activo        6:desactivado   7:desactivado
haldaemon       0:desactivado   1:desactivado   2:activo        3:activo        4:activo5:activo        6:desactivado   7:activo
netconsole      0:desactivado   1:desactivado   2:desactivado   3:desactivado   4:desactivado   5:desactivado   6:desactivado   7:desactivado
nfs-common      0:desactivado   1:desactivado   2:desactivado   3:desactivado   4:desactivado   5:desactivado   6:desactivado   7:desactivado
oki4daemon      0:desactivado   1:desactivado   2:desactivado   3:desactivado   4:desactivado   5:desactivado   6:desactivado   7:desactivado
partmon         0:desactivado   1:desactivado   2:desactivado   3:desactivado   4:desactivado   5:desactivado   6:desactivado   7:desactivado
resolvconf      0:desactivado   1:desactivado   2:activo        3:activo        4:activo5:activo        6:desactivado   7:desactivado

I do not have considered localization,  ,  please retry:

chkconfig --list | grep ":activo"

[patomas]

I have KDE and the boot takes a minute in a half + o -. I was thinking more if you know some/s service/s that you can remove from the start up without any danger.

It depends on your cpu and your hard drive. I have a quad core and ssd drive and I boot from grub to the KDE desktop in 12 seconds.

Well, i have a dual core. The thing is that my pclos used to boot faster but for some reason now takes much time and i dont know why.