[haiku] Re: Haiku slows down POST on Dell X1

  • From: Jatsek Platsek <platsek@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:26:10 -0700 (PDT)

Zenja Solaja <solaja@xxxxxxxxx>

> New disk/partition with BIOS set to autodetect geometry on power up?


Dell X1 does not have any BIOS options regarding HDD - it just informs that 30 
GB disk is detected as primary one.


On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Jatsek Platsek <platsek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have noticed some strange behaviour of my Dell X1 after running Haiku on it.
>
>
>Dell X1 displays a progress bar during its POST procedure. Normally it takes 
>no longer than second to finish and present bootman menu. But not when Haiku 
>was the last operating system started on that machine. POST takes much longer 
>then and the progress bar grows slowly (5-6 seconds maybe). Powering off does 
>not help. What helps is starting up Windows XP. The next POST is fast again 
>after Windows restart or shut down.
>
>
>How can it be explained? It is not related to any particular build of Haiku - 
>I have been seeing this since the very beginning of Haiku installation on this 
>machine (which means 4, 5 weeks ago and I am updating it every few days with 
>new
> builds).
>
>
>/Jacek
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