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Rush[ZA]
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 Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 5:12 pm Post subject: long time to boot |
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sorry for repeating this thread over here https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=209515&highlight=
Burt its been marked as solved so I havent been getting much help
Basically, My machine searches for hdd and hdc which dont exist
I edited my lilo.conf to look like this :
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lba32
boot = /dev/hda
map = /boot/.map
install = /boot/boot-menu.b
menu-scheme=Wb
prompt
timeout=40
delay = 40
vga = 778
default = Gentoo
image = /boot/bzImage
root = /dev/hda3
append="hdc=none hdd=none"
#root = /devices/discs/disc0/part3
label = Gentoo
read-only # read-only for checking
#append="init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda3"
#initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.9-gentoo-r6
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But it still stops there for a while searching for these drives before continuing
please assist ?
I have read through as much of the documentation as possible and still no joy 
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nyteryda
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| Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 5:46 pm Post subject: |
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If this is really a issue with you lilo configuration, is there a reason you don't try grub ?
Also, how is your BIOS set up ? has it been set to NONE where indicating what is on the IDE ports that aren't in use ?
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Rush[ZA]
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| Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 6:03 pm Post subject: |
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I have set up my bios to not include any drives except the primary master and primary slave
I couuld try grub
never have
always been a fan of lilo
but that kinda defeats the object i think.
I could try and work around it but thats not really solving and understand the problem.
If No one can assist me then I'll most certainly give grub a try
thanks for the heads up 
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nyteryda
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You have one Drive on Primary IDE and one Drive as the slave to that drive, but nothing on the secondary IDE channel at all ?
I would suggest you put one of your drives on the secondary IDE channel, you system should perform better.
(and you never know it might help with your lilo problem if lilo is capabilie of finding a drive on the both IDE channels, stranger things have happened)
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