> I'm not sure if I should just chalk this up to "flaky hardware" or
> whether it's something to do with Mandrake or what. Here's the
> situation: I have a dual-ppro 200 (only one processor running right
> now... SMP locks the machine up tight on boot-up!) with 192 megs of
> ram. Mandrake detects the ram just fine. I also have an Advansys
> ABP-940UA Ultra SCSI card hooked into a 8.5 GB SCSI drive, but I boot
> off an 850 mb IDE.
> I normally have to boot twice before I can get a reasonable Bogomips
> count. Typically I get about 1% of the "normal" bogomips at first
> boot and full bogomips after I reboot. For example, right now I think
A lot of motherboard/bios combinations do this. My W6LI dual ppro mb does
this on a regular basis. If the machine is interrupted during a reboot,
it reboots again with BIOS defaults, and runs extremely slowly. Another
reboot results in it using normal BIOS settings and it runs at full speed.
Brian Pape
Computer Resource Services
University California Los Angeles
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