Hi Eric, You can reduce the reboot delay if you turn on HFS+ journaling for all file systems. If you boot into MacOS 8 or 9, you should shutdown MacOS X cleanly before doing so. sudo diskutil enableJournal /dev/disk#s# You could also setup NetBoot for the test machine. The root filesystem will always be in a consistent state then. ;) Setting up NetBoot is non-trivial and requires OS X Server components. Have you tried booting into single user mode and manually loading the necessary kernel extensions? (Or do they load even on a single user boot?) You could unmount non-required volumes. Have you tried shift-booting too? If the kext's don't load, you could load them manually to possibly reproduce the problem. In these last two cases, you could remount all filesystems as read-only to avoid disk checks for those file systems. mount -o remount,ro / --Steve On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 04:47:39PM -0700, Eric Long wrote:

I have been testing to isolate a kernel panic caused by third party kext,

which only occurs when my test kext loads before it. The test kext does

almost nothing, but I have been playing with it to see if there's anything I

can do. If the third party kext isn't loaded, no panic occurs. The panic

is happening because the third party kext is actually calling panic().

While screwing with this I've had to do lots of rebooting. I'm using a

laptop that's a couple of years old. I don't want to install the third party

software on my desktop Mac. Rebooting takes forever and a day on Jaguar

because of the disk verification check.

Is there anyway to skip this check? Is it too risky to bypass?

Thanks,

Eric

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