Re: Extremely slow boot on new Vaio
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On 04/29/2007 05:27 AM, Preben Randhol wrote:
> Hi
>
> We are noticing that a new Vaio laptop is extremely slow to boot
> Debian. We thought it was PCMCIA problem an started without it, but it
> still is slow from around the place that PCMCIA would have started.
> Also the X11 is very sluggish. The laptop is noticeably slower than
> other older desktop computers.
>
> Does anybody have any experience with this? We are looking for clue as
> to what makes this happen. Windows XP does not have a boot problem.
>
> Any hints much appreciated!
On a few VAIOs you should turn off apic and lapic.
<kernel-boot-line> noapic nolapic
> Preben
Kind regards,
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Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)
"Debian. Freedom to code. Code to freedom!"
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