Long pause during MacOS 9.1 bootup

Alan Somers mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
Sat, 27 Apr 2002 14:49:34 -0500


>On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 05:42:11PM +0000, somersam@attbi.com wrote:
>>  I am running MOL 0.9.60 and YDL 2.2 on a G3-accelerated
>>  PowerCenter.  I'm running MacOS 9.1 within MOL.  Shortly
>>  after the MacOS 9.1 splash screen pops up, there's a
>>  period of a minute or more when nothing happens, i.e. no
>>  progress bar movement and no disk access.  Booting then
>>  continues the rest of the way relatively quickly and
>>  MacOS runs pretty well.
>>
>>  I've seen reports of long delays when booting 9.2.x, but
>>  is this normal for 9.1?  If not, are there any
>>  suggestions for getting rid of this delay?
>
>That was due to (apparently) some changes in the way OS 9.2.x determines
>what volume it's supposed to be booting from. Samuel has since fixed
>that particular issue. Is there any output on the terminal you started
>it from? Or if it's started from your WM, anything in
>~/.xsession_errors?

The only thing I see between the time the smiley Mac shows up and 
completion of boot is:

<*> Unkown gestalt selector 'nmrg'
<*> Unkown gestalt selector 'dvrf'
<*> Unkown gestalt selector 'ofpt'
<*> Unkown gestalt selector 'dvrf'
<*> Unkown gestalt selector 'dslp'
<*> control - Unrecognized cscode 20
<*> control - Unrecognized cscode 20
<*> control - Unrecognized cscode 20