Re: debian install went fine, but windoze slowed to a crawl
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?
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