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Re: [LUG] Made the switch to Lenny

 

On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Jennifer Ockwell wrote:

> My Acer dual boots lovely, never had a problem with it

My Aspire 5050 is dual-boot too (XP... & Linux. Lilo works well)

However there's an annoying thing at boot time which I can't explain.

Turn it on and it goes through the BIOS, then the screen clears and I can 
see the HDD LED blip, blink, blink, blink once a second or so - for about 
20 seconds then it prints the Lilo prompt... After that it's fine - Lilo 
loads Linux or XP at full speed and off it goes, but it's that first 
initial load of Lilo...

It did it when I first got it - running Etch, but I remember doing 
something to fix it, but I can't for the life of me remember what )-:

The "slowness" came back when I loaded Lenny onto it.

It's annoying, but I can live with it though. (And GRUB isn't an option 
for me right now, so don't suggest that!)

Gordon

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