[gentoo-user] Re: Switching to clocksource tsc: takes AGES on boot

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>]

On 14/02/12 14:15, LK wrote:
> On 120214, at 13:01, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> On 14/02/12 12:48, LK wrote:
>>>
>>> How do i get rid of that?
>>> It takes one minute on boot, that is awful.
>> If you boot with "acpi=off", does the problem go away?  What kernel version are you using?
> No it does not. After the root=/dev/sda5, in grub menu.lst, right ?

Yep.


> Kernel version 3.2.1-r2
> Maybe some setting in kernel settings?

You might want to post to LKML about this.  There was a related problem 
in 2.6.39, but you're using a recent kernel which has already fixed that 
problem.  So you're seeing something new.

You can also try the Linux kernel bugtracker:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/


>>> PS: How do i deamonize a service on startup? DHCPCD for example?
>> It has a service.  You add it to the default runlevel:
>>   rc-update add dhcpcd default
> It is started automatically, but cant it be ran in the background? It takes some time which isnt necessary. Thanks so far anyway.

Reading the dhcpcd man page says:

   -b, --background
              Background immediately.  This is useful for startup
              scripts which don't disable link messages for carrier
              status.

So to use that option, edit /etc/conf.d/net and use:

   dhcpcd_eth0="--background"

and see if it helps.