Hi, I experience slow bootup when the my PC is not connected to the Network. When I connected the lan cable it worked fine.
Calixto Ong -----Original Message----- From: Paul Patrick C. Prantilla [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 4:44 PM To: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List Subject: Re: [plug] wierd ubuntu slowdown Hello Michael, Can't say this can really help, but most of the times I experience long boot times is due to the box sending out dhcp requests and not getting any response in return. ...or somebody maybe did "touch /forcefsck" and changed the file to read-only....and your boot up process hides the fsck process with a gui (okay, just thought of that wild scenario up). :) -Paul Patrick C. Prantilla Michael Tinsay wrote: > Hi, > > I'm experiencing a wierd experience with Ubuntu: I > reinstalled Ubuntu 5.10 in one of my boxes here at > work (P4+1GB RAM), and from the installation (iterated > several times) up to it's present state, booting is > abnormally ssslllloooowwww, whether I'm booting from > an install CD or from the hard disk. Presently, it > takes several minutes to go from booting to the GDM > login screen. I haven't encountered this before. > Just loading the kernel and initrd images takes more > than a minute. > > The only difference I can account for is that before I > disabled all unnecessary BIOS settings (like the USB > controller, floppy drives, power management, etc) as > it was acting as a server. And before reinstalling, I > reset the BIOS to its factory default. > > Anybody had a similar experience? > > TIA. > > > --- mike t. > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
