On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:15, David Millet wrote: > >> so i just finished my first successful installation of debian (thank > >> you, thank you, i'll be signing autographs until tuesday), originally > >> it was just my win2000 drive in, i left it in there as the master > >> (hda) and put in a new drive as slave (hdb) which i installed debian > >> is. i can boot flawlessly into one or the other through lilo, > >> problem is that windows has now slowed to a crawl (i know, its > >> windows what do i expect but it wasnt like this before). if i select > >> windows at the lilo prompt, it takes literally ten minutes before i > >> get a login prompt. its seriously slow. i'm trying to figure out > >> what it could be other than a power issue, which it very well may > >> be. maybe my 300 watts power supply isnt enough for my hardware, but > >> i think it should be... but i wanted to hear if you folks had any > >> other ideas about what it could be. what do you think? > >> > > I'd try unplugging hdb to see if that has any effect. I suspect > > Windows is seeing another drive and trying to read it and can't. But > > that's just a guess. > > i should have mentioned that i tried unplugging hdb and booting > windows. the problem is, when it should have shown the lilo bootloader, > i just dumped a whole bunch of 0's and 1's, it was pretty cool but it > wasnt anything that was about to let me boot into windows or something. > i guess the system booting now depends on hdb. any other ideas? > > david >
Could you send your /etc/lilo.conf to see how you set it up? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
