New USB install, slow bootupForum: USB booting Topic: New USB install, slow bootup started by: Paul-the-Penguin Posted by Paul-the-Penguin on Oct. 13 2005,03:07
I've been using DSL 1.5 on a Sandisk Cruzer Freedom 256Mb pen drive mostly on an AMD 3000+ 512Mb RAM box. Today I bought a Sandisk Cruzer Mini 512Mb pen drive and put DSL on it intending to give it to my brother. Bootup with the new drive starts very slowly and I can't figure out why. It takes over 22 seconds to boot linux24 and minirt24 compared to less than 3 seconds on my old stick. After that everything seems to run at normal speed. Any idea what's happening and how to fix it?
Posted by Paul-the-Penguin on Oct. 13 2005,16:27
Okay, the boot sector was the problem and I fixed it by reinstalling syslinux using Knoppix. (I guess I could have done it from DSL but I happened to be running Knoppix when I got the idea.) I used the same CD to install DSL on both drives so DSL didn't cause the problem. I formatted the pen drives before I started, the first one using qtparted in Knoppix and the new one using XP. Gates struck again... maybe. Both drives had factory installed software and the first clearly had a hidden partition. The second formats with loss of space for some reason, 489Kb available on a 512Kb chip, so it must have some hidden partition Windows couldn't touch.
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