Booting sparkly new F12 install, error 13 from grub.

[Tim]

On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 13:51 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Would the bios drive order translation account for the slowness of the
> F12 system?  It is intolerably slow when multitasking, often taking 30
> seconds to a minute to close a window if the package manager is also
> running.

The BIOS will be used to read the drive to begin booting a system, but
Linux uses its own drivers post-boot.  So the problem would be
elsewhere.

Very slow graphics smacks of other issues:  Video drivers, or even
networking (name resolution, chiefly).

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[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686

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