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- From: 11458747@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (CHRISTIAN WILSON)
- Subject: Re: Pause in loading OS/2
- Message-ID: <11458747.164.722324139@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au>
- Keywords: os2, bug
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- Organization: Faculty of Engineering, Monash University
- References: <1dol06INNo65@crcnis1.unl.edu> <1992Nov12.225819.20137@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Nov13.042001.5571@nmt.edu>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 05:35:39 GMT
-
- >In article <1992Nov12.225819.20137@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >>In article <1dol06INNo65@crcnis1.unl.edu> pickrell@hoss.unl.edu (Andrew Pickrell) writes:
- >>>Sometime in the last couple of weeks, a pause has developed in the loading
- >>>of OS/2. After the title screen with the GA text comes up, the computer
- >>>waits about 10 seconds before hitting the harddrive again.
- >>>Does anyone know the reason behind this or better yet, a solution???
- >>
- >>Good question. Perhaps the hard drive needs to be defragmented. This
- >>pause would perhaps indicate some delay in finding the initial system
- >>files (kernel, etc). Have you replaced the kernel recently, or
- >
- >I don't think that's it...if it was fragmented then it would grind away
- >at the hard drive during that time. A pause would indicate something else
- >was going on...
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- Watch the DTR lights of your modem. Mine os/2 seems to check it at this
- time. THus the other comm ports too.
-
- Christian.
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