Suse 9.1 Slow Boot

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From: Keyser Soze
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 01:56

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When booting Suse9.1 (installed via FTP), after selecting Linux in
Grub i'm presented with the boot screen showing % complete bar. It
starts at about 2% and sits there for about 2 min, no hard disk
activity. Pressing F2 does nothing. After about 2 min the machine
continues to boot and then I can press F2 to see more detail and
eventually getting to KDM.

I added the option vga=normal to menu.lst and can see that the system
reports the following when it seems to hang for a couple of minutes:

<4>hdg: no response (status = 0xfe)
<4>hdg: no response (status = 0xfe), resetting drive
<4>hdg: no response (status = 0xfe) 
(taken from /var/log/boot.msg)

This probably has something to do with an additional SATA drive I
added recently for some additional storage?

Any ideas why there's "no response"?  What can I do about this?

Thanks
KS

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