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Date:	Sat, 1 Jul 2006 17:53:54 -0700
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Boot time...Opinions requested...?

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Martin Rosenfeld wrote:
> Ray,
>
>> Do you have a file named ALTF2ON.$$$ in X:\OS2\BOOT? If not, put one
>> there. Then you can narrow your question.
>
> I've been down that road. If I use ALTF2ON.$$$ then I disable the
> ability to use ALT-F1, ALT-F3 and Alt-F4 during boot. I have used
> ALT-F4 to step through the loading process. I still cannot identify the
> cause of my 35 second pause.

If you are watching everything load, how do you know there is a pause
and not know what is trying to load?

If I have a lot of HPFS partitions plugged in it can take a long time to
load HPFS.IFS. What do you have set to autocheck? Have you tried
unplugging everything but your boot drive?

Ray

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