Randall R Schulz wrote: > More problem > symptoms followed. When the boot process completed the hardware scan and > got to the point where the "Welcome to Windows 2000" low-resolution > splash screen would be taken down and the monitor resolution switched, I > instead got a long period of disk activity, which I took to be an > automatically invoked file system check (I have all NTFS systems, so I'm > not used to this happening and it alarmed me). There was no indication > of what was happening (as their ordinarily would be for a checkdsk, > either manually requested or automatically invoked). However, once that > was done, the system booted normally. Nonetheless, I don't like things > like this happening to my system.
Actaully, I think the long delay was the copy-on-reboot stage of the cygwin upgrade. I vaguely remember something about XFree needing to update a LOT of in use files, so setup puts those files in the copy-on-reboot list. Fonts? Anyway, copying hundreds of files, one at a time, can take a while... We should probably warn people about this; they could really scrog their cygwin if they interrupt the copy-on-reboot. --Chuck
