[Gllug] Slooooow boot

[Grzegorz Jaskiewicz]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Taylor James wrote:

> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I have a machine which I've just installed debian on. Everything went fine
> with the install, but upon rebooting, the machine wouldn't boot properly.
> All that happened was the letters L, followed by I, followed by L (all the
> way up to "LILO 2.22 Loading Linux" or whatever) appered as they should, but
> incredibly slowly (around a minute between each character!).
> 
> Booting from the boot floppy I created worked absolutely fine.
> 
> Has anybody seen this sort of behaviour before? Is this a dodgy hard disk?
It happends this way(but slightly faster - 10-20 sec) with software raid. 
Lilo checks something on HD, so i will check HD. Try badblock.

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GJ


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