Re: super long boot times (20+mins)

>     I just picked up a quad Xeon server today.  Verified working
>     operation before I took it home.  It was running Windows Server
>     2003, and booted up quite quickly.  The guy cleared the SCSI RAID
>     configs, and handed it over.  I brought it home, and found the
>     CD-ROM drive didn't want to release the tray.  Didn't have any
>     floppies on hand, so I just tossed my boot hard drive in the machine
>     and installed a copy of Windows Server 2003 to the IDE drive (yes, I
>     know this is a Linux list).  Would have preferred Debian on there,
>     but without a working CDROM, and no floppies......(I'm planning on
>     stopping by Fry's this weekend to pick up a new CD-ROM drive for it)

>     Anyways, the only thing I changed on the machine after getting it
>     was setting up the 6 SCSI drives as one big stripe, and made the IDE
>     drive the primary boot drive.  Took over 3 hours to install Windows,
>     and takes well over 20 mins just to boot now.  Doesn't appear to be
>     an issue with the IDE drive, as the majority of the time, there is
>     no disc access.  Once I log in, everything is quite snappy.  I also
>     noticed that the file copies in setup went by really quick. 

>     Any ideas?

>     eric