Re: [PLUG] diagnosing slow Fedora boots w/bootchart, cont'd

[Michael Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com>]

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On Nov 6, 2011 7:07 PM, "Adam Zion" <azion1995@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> OK, interesting finding: there was a CD in the computer's drive when I
> was booting it, an XP install disk (I was considering installing a XP
> VM, until I realized that this was silly considering that I had a dual
> boot Win7 configuration). When I removed this CD, the boot flew by.
>
> Here's the odd thing, though: the slowdown on the boot process isn't
> in the POST period, or at any point where you'd expect the computer to
> be looking at the drive- it appears to be loading drivers when it
> hangs.
>
> Thoughts?

Don't leave a CD in the drive again? :-)

>
> -Z
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