faster bootup by not scanning for hardware changes?

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, Jacques B. wrote:

> Unless I am mistaken, FC scans for any hardware changes on each
> bootup, correct?  How can I disable that so that it uses the hardware
> recognized in the last boot?  I'm guessing that would speed up the
> boot process.  I imagine that most users don't change their hardware
> very often.  If one could disable scan for hardware change and only
> enable it when a change occurs that would be great.
>
> Can it be done, or should this be posted somewhere else as a suggested
> future feature?

There's "chkconfig kudzu off", but IIRC, kudzu is deprecated in favor of 
dynamic hardware checking in hal.  Kudzu seems pretty fast these days 
anyway.  You might save a few seconds.

>
> Thanks,
>
> Jacques B.
>
>
>

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