Re: 8 to 9: A longer wait early in the boot of a (damaged) Compaq Presario

2012-02-17 Thread Uffe Jakobsen
On 2012-02-16 19:21, Alex Goncharov wrote: ,--- I/Alex (Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:34:36 -0500) * | There was one other odd thing that I noticed then: while Debian booted | without a delay, FreeBSD 8 made a long pause after passing the boot | menu: it would display the '/' character and sit there

8 to 9: A longer wait early in the boot of a (damaged) Compaq Presario

2012-02-16 Thread Alex Goncharov
About three years ago, my Compaq Presario F700 notebook got damaged in BIOS: it carried Windows Vista then, and that OS could not be recovered from the system image disks I had created for a brand-new machine. The damage was somewhere around BIOS/firmware area -- the way the console looked on a

Re: 8 to 9: A longer wait early in the boot of a (damaged) Compaq Presario

2012-02-16 Thread Alex Goncharov
,--- I/Alex (Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:34:36 -0500) * | There was one other odd thing that I noticed then: while Debian booted | without a delay, FreeBSD 8 made a long pause after passing the boot | menu: it would display the '/' character and sit there for some | non-trivial amount of seconds. I

Re: 8 to 9: A longer wait early in the boot of a (damaged) Compaq Presario

2012-02-16 Thread Rares Aioanei
On 02/16/2012 07:34 PM, Alex Goncharov wrote: About three years ago, my Compaq Presario F700 notebook got damaged in BIOS: it carried Windows Vista then, and that OS could not be recovered from the system image disks I had created for a brand-new machine. The damage was somewhere around