[ltp] OT - Linux Thinkcentre...

[zed]

"Chris. Aubrey-Smith" <cas194@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 18 July 2010 00:53, 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. -- The
> > linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at:
> > http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad
> >
> 
> What does dmesg tell you?
> 
As soon as I get to the computer again - it is about 2-3 km away, I'll do a
dmesg and report back the result.

Zed

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zed

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