On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Satish Balay wrote: > On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Lotsa Cabo wrote: > > > Did you try the 'clock=pit' boot option - from this reference?. Did it not > > make a difference? > > > > --> No, I have not tried it because I cannot get the OS up, and work with > > it, well enough to make the change. If it takes over three hours for it to > > boot, then working in the OS is going to be muuuuuch too painful to make a > > change while it's up. > > 3 hours to boot is way too long. I don't know what the reason could > be. Did you allocate sufficient memory for the VM? What CPU do you > have? How much memory did you allocate for the VM? > > But to use the above option at boot time - you can do the following: > > - power cycle > - when you see the prompt -'booting Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.681_FC3) in 5 sec...' > press 'e' for edit. > - if you get a menu with various kernel options again - press 'e' edit again > > - Now go to the line which says: something like: > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet > change it to: > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet clock=pit > > - Now press 'enter' to save your changes > - now press 'b' to boot. Also, to cut down the 'time' & 'memory' requirements - you can boot to console/non-graphical mode only with the boot option '3' (without 'rhgb'). i.e: kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/ clock=pit And to make these changes permanant - once you boot - you can edit /etc/grub.conf file - and make the changes. Satish
