[Grml] The installed GRML boots very slow

[Hermann]

Hi,
while checking out your list archive, I found that this was brought up
some months ago, but I repeat it:
I installed the release candidate of GRML 2008-11 on my desktop machine,
and since that I had to observe a slow boot process.
My hard drive start spinning and then stops for a long time till it
starts moving again. I guess that in the meantime there runs the
hardware detection. But why lasts this procedure so long?
Below I put the results of:
cat /proc/partitions
and
ll /sys/block

major minor  #blocks  name

   8     0   39099375 sda
   8     1   15358108 sda1
   8     2          1 sda2
   8     5   16386268 sda5
   8     6      48163 sda6
   8     7    7301511 sda7

insgesamt 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 22. Mai 15:15 ram0 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram0/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 22. Mai 15:15 ram1 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram1/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 22. Mai 15:15 ram10 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram10/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 22. Mai 15:15 ram11 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram11/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 22. Mai 15:15 ram12 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram12/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 22. Mai 15:15 ram13 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram13/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 22. Mai 15:15 ram14 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram14/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 22. Mai 15:15 ram15 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram15/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 22. Mai 15:15 ram16 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram16/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 22. Mai 15:15 ram17 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram17/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 22. Mai 15:15 ram18 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram18/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 22. Mai 15:15 ram19 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram19/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 22. Mai 15:15 ram2 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram2/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 22. Mai 15:15 ram20 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram20/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 22. Mai 15:15 ram21 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram21/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 22. Mai 15:15 ram22 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram22/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 22. Mai 15:15 ram23 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram23/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 22. Mai 15:15 ram24 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram24/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 22. Mai 15:15 ram25 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram25/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 22. Mai 15:15 ram26 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram26/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 22. Mai 15:15 ram27 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram27/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 22. Mai 15:15 ram28 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram28/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 22. Mai 15:15 ram29 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram29/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 22. Mai 15:15 ram3 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram3/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 22. Mai 15:15 ram30 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram30/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 22. Mai 15:15 ram31 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram31/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 22. Mai 15:15 ram4 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram4/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 22. Mai 15:15 ram5 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram5/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 22. Mai 15:15 ram6 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram6/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 22. Mai 15:15 ram7 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram7/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 22. Mai 15:15 ram8 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram8/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 22. Mai 15:15 ram9 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram9/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 22. Mai 15:15 sda -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 22. Mai 15:15 sr0 -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.1/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0/block/sr0/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 22. Mai 15:15 sr1 -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.1/host1/target1:0:1/1:0:1:0/block/sr1/

Anything wrong with that entries?
What can I change? I remember that deactivating udev detection is no
good idea.
Hermann

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