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- From: nikki@trmphrst.demon.co.uk (Nikki Locke)
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- Subject: Re: boot-time delay, Re: Two things....
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 11:35:35 +0000
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- Michael B Garrett wrote:
-
- > Also: Has anyone ever seen an ODT system that took about 1 minute to start
- > reading the .text and .data files on bootup? Mine waits at least that long
- > after you hit "enter" at the "Boot:" prompt. Since it has done this since
- > ODT 1.0, I assumed it was just a SCSI kinda thing, but my last client
- > got SCSI also, and it doesn't do it there. Both machines are EISA 486/33,
- > mine is a Bustek 742A and the client's is a 1740A.
- >
- > Is this slowness indicative of some problem I'm unaware of, or is it
- > just because the disk is slower (Maxtor 660MB) ?
-
- I had a problem with my 486/50 booting very slowly, and it went away when
- I turned the BIOS shadowing OFF.
-
- It was probably a BIOS bug of some kind, and not relevant to your
- situation, but you could try turning shadowing off and eliminate another
- possibility.
-
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