Re: [cobalt-users] Cobalt XTR takes hour to boot

[Ted Behling <TBehling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How are you shutting the machine down?  If you just turn it off, it'll run
e2fsck on boot, which is like Windows 9x's Scandisk program.  Make sure you
always shutdown using 'shutdown -h now'.

At 03:22 PM 8/6/01 -0600, David Clements wrote:
>I have a new Cobalt XTR that I am trying to configure.  Currently it 
>takes at
>least an hour to boot.  It seems to hang with the message "Checking 
>disk..." for a
>long time, the lights indicate a lot of disk activity.  After about an 
>hour the machine reboots
>itself then finally comes up.
>
> Anyone have similar trouble? Any ideas?
>
>The machine has three drives for a total of 60GB.


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