There's no automatic way to do it, but you can hit ESC on the console and it will skip the test.
6.0 has a warm reboot feature that skips the memory test completely.
Graham
-----Original Message----- From: Todd C. Merrill [mailto:tmerrill@mathworks.com] Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 2:47 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: fastboot
SunOS used to have a `fastboot` command that skipped filesystem checks (?) on bootup. HP-UX machines have a PROM setting FASTBOOT to skip memory checks on bootup.
Anything equivalent on a filer (skipping memory tests, not filesystem checks, that is!)?
With 3 GB of memory to check on boot, it takes (min:sec) 1:11 of a total boot time of 2:15. Downtime can be reduced by 50% by just skipping the memory test!
It may not be a good thing in production, but during installation and configuration, it gets to be tiring.
Until next time...
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