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). -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines