/etc/init.d/mysql start WITHOUT integrity check?

[Daevid Vincent]

Is there a way to "/etc/init.d/mysql start" WITHOUT doing an integrity
check? 

Can I pass in a command line parameter or set something in the my.cnf file?

Our DB is a Billion rows (with a "B") and that check can take HOURS. 

All we want to do is restart the server to put another slave online because
sadly "/etc/init.d/mysql reload" does NOT re-load the config file (as one
might hope), it is only to reload PRIVS (how useless is that since GRANT
already does that).