[21:20] <kjcole> Any special magic to make a very slow LiveCD boot faster?  I keep getting udevsettle timeouts.
[21:21] <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
[21:22] <maco> faster cd drive?
[21:22] <maco> though a live usb shouldnt depend on that...
[21:37] <kjcole> It appears the problem may somehow be the hard disk.
[21:38] <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?
[21:39] <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.
[21:40] <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..
[21:41] <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.
[21:42] <bcurtiswx> lol
[21:42] <maco> it could e a 3.4GHz celeron from 2002
[21:43] <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.)
[21:44] <kjcole> Under Windows it boots up at a reasonable speed.
[21:44] <bcurtiswx> reasonable for windows or Linux? :P
[21:44] <kjcole> Heh.
[21:45] <kjcole> Given the comparison is a Linux USB stick...
[21:45] <kjcole> BRB
[21:46] <bcurtiswx> maco, whats the sponsors website?
[21:47] <maco> http://reports.qa.ubuntu.com/reports/sponsoring/
[21:49] <bcurtiswx> maco, thx
[21:50] <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
[21:56] <kjcole> Is there something to force a running system to try to wake a hard drive that it doesn't see?
[22:12] <bcurtiswx> whats dmesg say?
[22:12] <bcurtiswx> kjcole, ^^
[22:18] <kjcole> Sorry.  Was in a chat with Dell.  No help there.  Let me look.
[22:19] <kjcole> Sadly, lots of read errors.
[22:20] <kjcole> What's the preferred pastebin?
[22:23] <kjcole> http://pastebin.com/EBL3EZ7u
[22:25] <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.