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

2020-04-28 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-04-28 05:33, Marcin Owsiany wrote: I noticed, that in order to prevent this slowness, I just need to have some USB device plugged into any USB port while the laptop is starting! It does not need to be used, its mere presence helps. - once booting nice and fast, it still goes slow as

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

2020-04-28 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 4/28/20 5:33 AM, Marcin Owsiany wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 04:57:03PM +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. Many thanks to everyone who responded! As

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

2020-04-28 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 04:57:03PM +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. Many thanks to everyone who responded! As usual, one can count on the Debian community!

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

2020-04-23 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-04-23 13:35, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-04-23 07:57, 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? I find it very useful to have a USB 3.0 flash

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

2020-04-23 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-04-23 07:57, 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? More details: I bought a Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 in April 2019. It came with Windows 10, I

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

2020-04-23 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 23.04.2020 19:57, 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? > > More details: > > I bought a Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 in April 2019. It came with Windows

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

2020-04-23 Thread Alexis Grigoriou
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

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

2020-04-23 Thread Kent West
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 10:15 AM 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? > > > This "feels" like a hardware issue. Try removing the drive and see if

Boot so slow it never completes, while Windows boots fine

2020-04-23 Thread Marcin Owsiany
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? More details: I bought a Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 in April 2019. It came with Windows 10, I installed Debian buster on it (dual-boot with