OT: Slow booting, was re: Booting an IBM MP 3000 S/390 System

[Antonio Carlini]

On 07/08/15 19:35, Chuck Guzis wrote:
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> I think that supermicro still has the specs for the board up:
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> http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/archive/PentiumIII/440GX/P6DGE.cfm 
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>
> As you can see, it's pretty basic.  It's pretty hard to find 
> reasonably fast boards with fully-functional ISA slots nowadays.
>

I think I have that mobo around somewhere!

The manual seems to be here: 
http://www.supermicro.com/manuals/motherboard/440GX/MNL-018.pdf

The only obvious things I can see are Quick Boot Enable (doesn't wait 
for disks, doesn't test beyond 1MB of memory), On-Board SCSI (disable, 
so it doesn't probe for SCSI disks).

Beyond that, I don't see any obvious options (unless you've got some 
card plugged in that slows the whole thing down, but I don't think you 
mentioned any such cards).

Antonio