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jerry writes: > These are some of the options that Dan could use. In any > case, I'm pretty sure that I got it right when I worked on > Dan's system at the installfest. > apm=off > acpi=off > noresume > nosmp > noapic well, ok -- the line in menu.lst that you altered at the installfest read originally (iirc): kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=933880c9-962e-490e-966a -f2914fb1a5f5 ro splash=silent and after your change: kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=933880c9-962e-490e-966a -f2914fb1a5f5 ro verbose noapci this apparently solved my problem, which was an excessively long boot time, like 5 minutes or so, which was reduced to about 2 min after your mod. then in subsequent discussion, you and other folk suggested that it should be noacpi, not noapci. interesting -- so i then changed the line to read noacpi and the boot time remained at 2 min. puzzled, i then removed the term entirely, and boot time remained at 2 min. going back to splash, quiet splash, or splash=silent at the end, the boot time reverted to 5 min. i used to know where the splash file was kept, but can't find it now on either my wife's or my machine, where the line ends in quiet splash and has no problem. could the splash file be missing on my wife's machine? tia, dan j. daniel moylan 84 harvard ave brookline, ma 02446-6202 617-232-2360 (tel) 810-454-1823 (fax) [hidden email] www.moylan.info [death to html bloat!] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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