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Re: [LUG] really slow booting

 

Michael Mortimore wrote:
> 
> Apart from ditching the drive, I'm out of ideas what to do. Anyone seen
> this before?

No but I've heard of similar, the disk is too big for older IDE support,
so everything needs to be shiny and new. Clearly there is a BIOS issue
before Linux, so you have either hardware or BIOS configuration issue.

Check for BIOS updates from the motherboard manufacturer.

Most of the disk information can be found from "hdparm -I /device", post
that.

What does the kernel log during boot regarding this device?

Can you try the disk in another machine to establish if the problem
follows the disk or is just this machine?

Can you find:

motherboard make, model, and BIOS revision.
drive make, model and firmware revision.
controller make, model, firmware revision.

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