[ltp] Booting problems

[Eben King]

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Mallipeddi Venkata Harish wrote:

> But, since a few months, I'm having this problem. When I switch on (or
> restart) the laptop, it gets stuck at the initial IBM Thinkpad logo screen
> for a long long time. Pressing F1 or the Access IBM key does not seem to
> work at all. What I do right now is to keep restarting (by pressing
> Ctrl+Alt+Del) and finally after n attempts it loads LILO and boots linux.
> Otherwise it gets stuck at the IBM logo screen as I mentioned for a
> longtime.
> 
> Why is this happening? Someone suggested that it might be due to some 
> hardware failure. But, I do not see anything like that. Everything seems to 
> be working fine after it boots into linux.

Hard drive failling to signal "I'm here" but nonetheless working fine?

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