on Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 12:15:11AM -0700, David Millet (david@tellim.com) 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:
You'll find your keyboard has two shift keys, to the left and right of
your main alphabet keyboard. Please instruct yourself on their proper
use.
There is also a key labled "enter" or "return". It also has a use in
prose text.
As for your Windows issues, GRUB has, and LILO may have, options to
conceal one or more physical drives from an operating system. You may
be able to "hide" the new drive from MSFT, and find that this improves
system performance.
See the "hide" and "map" options of GRUB.
Peac3.
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