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- From: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
- Subject: Re: longish "loading from disk"
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.180859.1245@metrosoft.com>
- Sender: gvh@metrosoft.com
- Reply-To: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
- Organization: Metrosoft
- References: <1992Jul23.153545.4741@cubetech.com>
- Distribution: na,local
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 18:08:59 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul23.153545.4741@cubetech.com> andrew@cubetech.com
- (Andrew Loewenstern) writes:
- > In article <1992Jul21.195555.3518@arizona.edu>
- d_mc%McCube.tucson.az.us@arizona.edu (Don McCollam) writes:
- > >Recently, my system has occasionally displayed the "loading from disk"
- > >message for quite a long time. Why would the time for "loading from
- disk"
- > >vary - sometimes only a short time and others quite a long time?
- Advice
- > >appreciated.
- >
- > Althougth it's been a long time since I booted in "Welcome to
- > Macintosh" mode, it's probably checking the disk. If the filesystem
- > isn't properly sync'ed on shutdown, it will check the filesystem on
- > boot-up...
- >
- >
-
- It says "checking disk" while it runs fsck, not "loading from disk".
-
- Gordon
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