really REALLY slow computer
zephod at cfl.rr.com
zephod at cfl.rr.com
Thu May 3 13:50:46 UTC 2007
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak" <mjc at avtechpulse.com>
Date: Thursday, May 3, 2007 9:06 am
Subject: Re: really REALLY slow computer
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> >>> It starts to boot OK but really bogs down when it gets to INIT
> and then
> >>> udev times out which takes about 10mins. I was hoping the
> 2.6.21 kernel
> >>> was going to help but it did not. Everything seems to function
> OK when
> >>> it finally boots but it juuussssttt ttttoooo ssslllooowwww.
> AAAAGGGGHHHH!>>>
> >> Is there anything in the logs about timeouts during boot?
> >> /var/log/dmesg may have some clues...
> >
> > Nothing about timeouts. Here are a few things from dmesg that
> might be
> > of interest.
>
>
> Make sure you have the latest BIOS available for the DC7700 (we
> are
> talking about a DC7700, right)?
Yes we are talking about a dc7700p and it a brand new machine so I
would hope it has a very recent BIOS if not the latest but I will
check anyhow.
> Also, I boot my DC7700 with the "pci=noacpi acpi=off" kernel
> parameters.
I've already tried booting with the acpi=off kernel parameter but
tomorrow I will try with the pci=noacpi option. I am also going to try
the hda=noprobe (actually in my case I think it should be
sdb=noprobe?) I have also seen sugestion to try pci=conf1 and I might
try the pae kernel but I think that only makes a difference if you
have > 2G of RAM and I have 2G.
Steve
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