Re: Boot so slow it never completes, while Windows boots fine

[Alexis Grigoriou <alexis@nanoid.net>]

On Thu, 2020-04-23 at 16:57 +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> TL;DR: My laptop starts ~20x slower than normal. Booting Debian hangs
> before the kernel starts. Windows 10 boots slow, but then works fine.
> Hardware problem?
> 
> My only theories now are:
> - a hardware problem (but why does it go away once Windows boots?)
> - a botched CPU microcode update (but I suppose there are checksums
> which
> would prevent it from happening, so not likely).
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Marcin

I also believe it is a harware problem. I would first run a memtest to
ensure RAM is good.