On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 18:45, zed <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have an elderly friend using one of these machines and I've just installed
> LinuxMint for her. She was using WindowsXP and the machine was taking nigh
> on 4 minutes to boot. Mint was installed in the hope that this would cure
> the problem. Alas! it is still a four minute boot time.
>
> Following the advice of the helpful members on linux-thinkpad, I did a dmesg
> from the terminal. The output looks like this:
[SNIP]
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Deciphering the result of the dmesg command, is beyond my level of
> competence, so I seek your assistance to point out any errors which could
> lead to a slow boot time., and what I can do about them.As a matter of
> interest, the machine is a 2.53GHz. although I do not know the model number.
Looks like you've got < 1GB RAM, 1 single core P4 at 2.6GHz and
Hyperthreading disabled.
You've got a WD WD400BB-23FJ 40GB hard disk (ATA)
And looking further... your second hard disk is bad. That's causing
your slowdown:
[ 80.816025] ata2: lost interrupt (Status 0x58)
[ 80.820003] ata2: drained 32768 bytes to clear DRQ.
[ 80.883112] ata2.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6
frozen
[ 80.883119] ata2.01: failed command: READ DMA
[ 80.883127] ata2.01: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/f0 tag 0 dma
4096 in
[ 80.883129] res 40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4
(timeout)
[ 80.883133] ata2.01: status: { DRDY }
[ 80.883166] ata2: soft resetting link
[ 81.053407] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
[ 81.076389] ata2.01: configured for UDMA/100
[ 81.076608] ata2.01: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
That runs from about 80 seconds in to 174 seconds in, which accounts
for about 1:34 seconds of boot time. Unplug that hard disk and see if
it speeds up the boot time...
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