On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Eben King wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, steve szmidt wrote:
> > On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Eben King wrote:
> >> I think parallelizing bootable drive checking would require a threaded
> >> BIOS. Much more complex and hence buggier.
> >
> > Only if you read it, which of course windows is.
>
> To check whether the "bootable" bit is set, you have to read it, no?
No it reads the drive and discovers what's bootable. That's not stored in the
BIOS anyway.
> > I don't think your issue is CPU related per se. It certainly sounds like
> > either a misconfiguration or conflicting library or similar. Assuming you
> > still have usable RAM left and not swapping.
>
> eben@pc:~$ free
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 2076192 1999252 76940 0 25060 1023136
> -/+ buffers/cache: 951056 1125136
> Swap: 3212988 1248 3211740
>
> Not swapping much.
Nope, looks good there.
--Steve Szmidt
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