Ditching FC3... for now =(

[Raffi Khatchadourian]

Satish Balay wrote:

>On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Lotsa Cabo wrote:
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>>Did you try the 'clock=pit' boot option - from this reference?. Did it not
>>make a difference?
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>>--> No, I have not tried it because I cannot get the OS up, and work with
>>it, well enough to make the change. If it takes over three hours for it to
>>boot, then working in the OS is going to be muuuuuch too painful to make a
>>change while it's up.
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>3 hours to boot is way too long. I don't know what the reason could
>be. Did you allocate sufficient memory for the VM? What CPU do you
>have? How much memory did you allocate for the VM?
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>But to use the above option at boot time - you can do the following:
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>- power cycle
>- when you see the prompt -'booting Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.681_FC3) in 5 sec...'
>  press 'e' for edit. 
>- if you get a menu with various kernel options again - press 'e' edit again
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>- Now go to the line which says: something like:
>kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
>   change it to:
>kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet clock=pit
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>- Now press 'enter' to save your changes
>- now press 'b' to boot.
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>Satish
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This may be a stupid question and/or has been brought up before, but is 
there virus protection running on Windows XP? If so, this will 
definately slow down the speed of the VM.