On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Drew Hunt wrote:
> Well, good news and bad news. Good news, I found and jumpered the turbo
> pins. Bad news, it changed nothing. Bogomips is still at 7.91 and it still
> takes 10-15 minutes to boot the system. Could it be something else? I'm
> having some other hardward problems with that machine.
>
> - AHA2840 (aic7xxx.o) SCSI card and HD that crashes the system when loaded,
> so currently ignored
> - floppy runs through the SCSI card, refuses through the IDE card. Seems to
> run ok.
>
Did you remove the SCSI card, or turn off the FD controller on it, and
turn on the FD controller on the IDE card when you tried this? This is
normaly a jumper setting, and you can normaly only have one FD
controller in the system. (Unless one of the controllers can be
jumpered to use the second FD controller address.)
>
> - even during install, never could get the boot image to work (boot-bit on
> MBR, supposedly) on the ide HD, so it has to boot from a floppy. Have
> fiddled with lilo.conf and fun lilo many times to no avail. BIOS shows
> error "no operating system detected". Obviously, this slows the up time a
> bit, but will this affect the processor speed?
>
This shouldn't affect processor speed. It is usualy caused when you
don't have any partitions marked as actice or bootable. Linux fdisk
calls the flag Boot. some BIOSs require one partition on the hard disk
to have the Boot flag set.
>
> Any suggestions on boot image installation, SCSI operation or CPU speed are
> appreciated.
>
> Drew
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>
Even booting from a floppy, it shouldn't take that long to boot, unless
it has to fun fsck on a large/slow drive when booting. I hope you
didn't damage anything when you melted the jumper looking for the turbo
jumper. If you found the docs for the board, you may also want to check
the processor clock settings.
Mikkel
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Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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