[olug] Slow Boot of HPCompaq dc5800 Microtower GX162AV

[Damian Harouff]

There's actually a couple of other things that stand out to me:

# 6 gigabytes of swap?
# There's 12 other partitions on the disk before swap? (sda13)

-Damian


On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 10:55 PM, Justin Reiners <justin at hotlinesinc.com>
wrote:

> I'm with Dan. I'd check smart errors before anything else. I had an
> encrypted drive go flaky and the system would take hours to boot. With no
> IO errors present in the normal places.
>
> Look for old age.
>
> It is in the repo. smartmontools for fedora/centos. smartctl -a /dev/sda#
>
> Sent from my mobile device.
> On Jun 9, 2015 10:45 PM, "Dan Linder" <dan at linder.org> wrote:
>
> > Off hand, I'd guess a failing hdd, but usually you'd see hdd
> > errors...usually, but not always.
> >
> > Dan
> > On Jun 9, 2015 9:51 PM, "Joseph Gulizia" <joseph.gulizia at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Slow Boot of HPCompaq dc5800 Microtower GX162AV
> > >
> > > The slow part of DMESG
> > >
> > > [    5.177769] usb 2-3: SerialNumber: AE7FHE0700001738
> > > [   19.736125] Adding 5998588k swap on /dev/sda13.  Priority:-1
> extents:1
> > > across:5998588k FS
> > >
> > > GRUB comes up to prompt quickly:  "Attempting to boot from Hard Drive"
> > > before Boot Options come up 2 minutes later.
> > >
> > > DMESG is long (500+ lines)
> > >
> > > Other commands to give more information?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Joe
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