Delay when a sketch starts

Using Arduino Microcontrollers
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Hello,

I have a minor issue with my Arduino. I get a delay of about 8-10 seconds from the moment I start the sketch until the sketch starts. Same thing happens when I reset the Arduino. I have to wait 8-10 seconds until the sketch starts. I read something about burning the wrong boot loader on the atmega. I wonder if this is the problem in my case. I have an single sided serial Arduino with an atmega8 on it. I burned the boot loader myself with the parallel programmer.

The sketch works fine.

I am wondering if I can eliminate the delay.

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What bootloader did you burn?

The original bootloader (on the original ATmega8 based serial arduino) has a 10 second delay. This gave time for the person programming the board to reset the device. Later, auto-resent in hardware was implemented.

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I had the same thing with my atmega8......then I burned the optiboot on them.......magic! Instant joy!