slow (s-l-o-w) install
Da Rock
rock_on_the_web at hotmail.com
Sat Feb 16 11:20:52 UTC 2008
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> Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:43:37 +0000
> From: alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> CC:
> Subject: Re: slow (s-l-o-w) install
>
>> Now I'm trying to install F8/x86_64 on it, and the installer is running
>> amazingly slowly. It took about ten minutes before the initial graphical
>
> Probably wrong memory caching in the BIOS. That's a common cause of those
> symptoms. If so boot with mem=2G or be patient and once you've got it
> installed take a look at /proc/mtrr and that will show which memory the
> system marked as cached. If its wrong then you can tweak the settings
> and/or beat up the BIOS vendor
>
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Is this a known fault? Is it documented? If so it may have saved me a lot of diagnostics...
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