Re: [newbie] Linux very slow to load - repost

1999-10-11 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
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

Re: [newbie] Linux very slow to load - repost

1999-10-06 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 05 Oct 1999, you wrote: Because it seems abnormal which leads me to believe there may be hidden problems that I haven't found yet. Hopefully this info is somewhat helpful it trying to figure it out. Ok...here's something to think about my system is a dual-ppro 200. Only one

[newbie] Linux very slow to load - repost

1999-10-05 Thread Eric Mings
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

Re: [newbie] Linux very slow to load - repost

1999-10-05 Thread Patrick Putteman
] Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 9:37 PM Subject: [newbie] Linux very slow to load - repost 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

Re: [newbie] Linux very slow to load - repost

1999-10-05 Thread Civileme
Well, you asked for ideas, not educated guesses. 1. Do you have a Seagate IDE Disk? From BIOS to LILO, what occurs besides a disk read? Does it switch to multi-mode there? Does it try to implement UDMA? What does your startup log look like? Any {Seek Complete} Errors? What bus speed and what

Re: [newbie] Linux very slow to load - repost

1999-10-05 Thread Steve Philp
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

Re: [newbie] Linux very slow to load - repost

1999-10-05 Thread Eric Mings
Well, you asked for ideas, not educated guesses. Thanks! 1. Do you have a Seagate IDE Disk? I have a IBM 7200 rpm IDE From BIOS to LILO, what occurs besides a disk read? Does it switch to multi-mode there? Does it try to implement UDMA? I cant tell what it does. It just goes from

Re: [newbie] Linux very slow to load - repost

1999-10-05 Thread Eric Mings
Is your machine attempting to boot from the floppy or CDROM before jumping to the hard drive? That could the problems you report. It does not appear to be doing that. The bios was set for attempting C,cdrom,A I then set it for C only . No difference.

Re: [newbie] Linux very slow to load - repost

1999-10-05 Thread Eric Mings
seems like a problem with the spin-up for your harddisk to me... What kind of hard disk is it? SCSI or IDE? Size, make/brand... ? IBM IDE 10gig 7200 rpm Regards, Eric Mings Ph.D.