If there are multiple floppy interfaces it can cause the system to hang and
wait for a timeout during the bios' part of booting. only a possibility,
but can take minutes.
brian:)
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At 12:49 AM 1/16/01 -0600, you wrote:
>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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