| kjcole | Any special magic to make a very slow LiveCD boot faster? I keep getting udevsettle timeouts. | 21:20 |
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| kjcole | (Tried with an LTS Live CD and a Maverick Live USB. Both worked on other systems. And the current system still boots into Windows XP, so the hardware's good...) | 21:21 |
| bcurtiswx | get a new computer...? | 21:21 |
| bcurtiswx | j/k | 21:21 |
| maco | faster cd drive? | 21:22 |
| maco | though a live usb shouldnt depend on that... | 21:22 |
| kjcole | It appears the problem may somehow be the hard disk. | 21:37 |
| kjcole | The USB eventually did boot (after about 12 minutes) but it doesn't see the hard disk. | 21:38 |
| bcurtiswx | USB doesn't need the hard disk... | 21:38 |
| bcurtiswx | so the CPU is just slow? | 21:38 |
| bcurtiswx | whats the speed? | 21:38 |
| kjcole | Yeah, but I'm having a chicken and egg problem (and may resort to digging up another stick): This machine has a fresh install of Windows XP but it's a Dell. It doesn't have any of the Dell drivers it needs. | 21:39 |
| kjcole | Since it can't get out to the network without the drivers, I thought: Boot into Linux, and download everything to the Windows partition. It's worked for me before. | 21:40 |
| bcurtiswx | kjcole, that is an intriguing issue.. | 21:40 |
| kjcole | Someone scrawled on it 3.4 GHz / 2 GB RAM. ;-) | 21:41 |
| kjcole | I have to run to the other room to check out if that is, in fact, truthiness. | 21:41 |
| bcurtiswx | lol | 21:42 |
| maco | it could e a 3.4GHz celeron from 2002 | 21:42 |
| maco | that'd be slow... very little L2 | 21:43 |
| kjcole | Manufacture date on sticker (not hand scrawled) says 2006. (Dell Dimension 5150, to be precise.) | 21:43 |
| kjcole | Under Windows it boots up at a reasonable speed. | 21:44 |
| bcurtiswx | reasonable for windows or Linux? :P | 21:44 |
| kjcole | Heh. | 21:44 |
| kjcole | Given the comparison is a Linux USB stick... | 21:45 |
| kjcole | BRB | 21:45 |
| bcurtiswx | maco, whats the sponsors website? | 21:46 |
| maco | http://reports.qa.ubuntu.com/reports/sponsoring/ | 21:47 |
| bcurtiswx | maco, thx | 21:49 |
| bcurtiswx | i still don't have my luggage back from JFK, AA keeps telling me it's with the delivery company, but the delivery company hasn't called me or delivered it yet | 21:50 |
| === kjcole_ is now known as kjcole | ||
| kjcole | Is there something to force a running system to try to wake a hard drive that it doesn't see? | 21:56 |
| bcurtiswx | whats dmesg say? | 22:12 |
| bcurtiswx | kjcole, ^^ | 22:12 |
| kjcole | Sorry. Was in a chat with Dell. No help there. Let me look. | 22:18 |
| kjcole | Sadly, lots of read errors. | 22:19 |
| kjcole | What's the preferred pastebin? | 22:20 |
| kjcole | http://pastebin.com/EBL3EZ7u | 22:23 |
| kjcole | I'm loathe to reboot into Windows, but I guess I'll run a scan and see if I can improve on things. | 22:25 |
| kjcole | Signing off (rebooting) for now. | 22:25 |
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