Slow booting

[Sid Bytheway]

I have a K570, and it runs through an interminably long process every time I reboot. FASTBOOT = YES, but it appears to run memory and cpu checks every time it reboots. It takes a good 20 minutes or so to reboot. What's the solution to this?

[Byron Myers · Accepted solution]

No solution - this is a feature of hp booting, especially with K-boxes. The FASTBOOT option makes it boot faster, but at the risk of NOT completely testing hardware. Setting the FASTBOOT flag is good when doing maintenance where you need to do a lot of reboots, but I recommend that you turn FASTBOOT off when you deliver to production - this will allow for a more robust system diagnosis if its hardware. Typically, the more memory you have, the longer the boot, since every bit of memory is tested. 20 minutes is normal for a K-box. The newer L's and N's typically take 10 to 15 minutes to boot.