Eric Mings wrote:
>
> I never received any solutions or explanations for the difficulty I
> mentioned in my prior post so I figured I would try again. I know that
> with a high volumn list such as this, questions quickly become lost in
> the pile if not addressed soon after posting. Anyways,
> below is my problem. Any suggestions greatly appreciated. Thanks.
>
> I recently installed Mandrake 6 on a 450 pentium box and, although it
> runs well, it seems very slow to initially load up. I have redhat 6
> running on an old 486 and it loads MUCH faster. Here is the difference,
> it takes forever for the LILO prompt to come up after the basic bios
> settings display is finished. Sometimes I even have to restart to get it
> to come up at all. It then takes almost forever for the "loading linux"
> to finish. After that point all is normal in the startup process. Both
> of these aspects are very fast on my old 486 with redhat. Any ideas what
> could be causing this?
Is your machine attempting to boot from the floppy or CDROM before
jumping to the hard drive? That could the problems you report.
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Steve Philp
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