As several pointed out this was way too slow! Well, I fixed it. The system is in a standalone server cabinet (about 14" high with one side for the motherboard, and bays for six disk drives, plus two other devices such as CDs. I opened the machine up and notice one fan was running. Further investigation showed that NONE of the three fans was running. The machine had been assembled several months ago and after a move I got it out and put in the disks, and connected everything. Well, I forgot to connect the fans to the power supply - I connected them to each other but forgot the power supply lead. So the system was overheating and slowing back to protect itself. I tested the Intel thermal protection and it works!
> Anyone have any idea how long stage 1 should take on a dual PIII 933 with > 256 meg of memory? I let it run for 72 plus hours and it still hadn't > finished. I'm using Knoppix to boot because the Gentoo LiveCD doesn't > detect the Adaptec 3210S card (dpt_i2o - funny it detects it on my AMD > machine!). I boot to command line Knoppix, then modprobe and mount the > disks and run from there. I have a 2 gig swap file. > > Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb AKA Grunt <>< -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
