Re: what did hwinfo do to my machine?

[owens@netptc.net]

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From: Camaleón

To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

Sent: 6/4/2012 3:55:58 PM

Subject: Re: what did hwinfo do to my machine?

On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:05:13 -0400, Dan B. wrote:

> After I ran hwinfo (to detect a modem), my machine runs very slowly at
> the beginning of booting.
>
> (GRUB takes about 8 seconds between displaying the the "Welcome to
> GRUB!" text and the "error: fd0 read error."
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

(...)

Well, that error can be relevant.

Try to disable the floppy disk controller (or any other FDD related stuff
you find) from the BIOS and see what happens.

Greetings,

--
Camaleón

I have seen such a behavior before when the BIOS boot sequence was erroneously configured to boot from floppy before the HDD

Larry
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