[Ilugc] Re: [svlug] long time to power on

[Ajit Natarajan]

Prathapnirmal wrote:
>   I believe you meant the boot messages. Have you setup your boot 
> sequence starting with CD drive and have some disk on your drive? If the 
> drive is bad, it might be taking a lot of time trying to read it and 
> fail over to IDE.
> 

Thank you for your response.  I didn't mean boot sequence.  I meant from 
the time I press the power button to the time the first BIOS message 
shows up.

Once the BIOS messsages show up, the rest of the boot goes as expected.

Ajit