[ltp] OT - Linux Thinkcentre...

[zed]

John Jason Jordan <johnxj@comcast.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 07:04:36 +1200 zed <zed@zed.net.nz> dijo:
> 
> > Is there anyone on the list who can point me to a similar list for users
> > of the IBM Thinkcentre, please. I have searched Google without success.
> >
> > I have an elderly friend using one of these machines and I've just
> > installed LinuxMint for her.  She was using WindowsXP and the machine
> > was taking nigh on 4 minutes to boot.  Mint was installed in the hope
> > that this would cure the problem.  Alas! it is still a four minute boot
> > time.
> >
> > I don't know the model number but it is 1.7GHz with IGB RAM.
> 
> I don't know of a Thinkcentre list, but something sounds wrong here.
> 
> I would suggest interrupting the boot process at the point Grub is
> loading, then edit the boot line. If Mint uses the old Grub you can edit
> it by using a text editor to open /boot/grub/menu.lst. Specifically, you
> want to remove "quiet" from the boot line. (I think this is all you have
> to do, but it's been a long time since I messed with Grub.) The goal is to
> make the boot process stream the text messages of what is going on instead
> of just giving you a GUI progress bar. I'll bet there are one or more
> processes that are hanging and then erroring out.

Good thinking. LinuxMint v9 has Grub2, so there is no menu.lst Any pointers
as to how I edit Grub2, please?

Zed
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