Eric, You can turn on Journaling on your startup disk, this will cause the system to bypass the fsck and allow you to have faster re-boot. I believe the command is (as root) diskutil enableJournal /dev/xxxx where xxxx is your device for the root drive. You may wish to check on google to be sure about that command, it's been a while since I turned it on. Your reboots will be much faster (After a crash) with journalling turned on, and your filesystem will be less likely to suffer catastrophic damage. -Hope that helps, Brian Tabone On Wednesday, April 30, 2003, at 06:47 PM, 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 _______________________________________________ darwin-kernel mailing list | darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/darwin-kernel Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. _______________________________________________ darwin-kernel mailing list | darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/darwin-kernel Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.