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SubjectRe: Slow booting
It is not there (I am useing the stock slackware disks) I will try this
and see what happens.

why does this not cause a problem on the slower/older machines?

David Lang

On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Riley Williams wrote:

> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 00:03:58 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Riley Williams <rhw@MemAlpha.CX>
> To: David Lang <dlang@diginsite.com>
> Cc: Richard Adams <pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl>, Jim Jarosz <jjarosz@tcccom.net>,
> Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
> Subject: Re: Slow booting
>
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, David Lang wrote:
>
> > there is a problem and it is related to the speed of the CPU
> > and/or the type of floppy controller in the system (I don't know
> > which). If you boot from a floppy on a <200 MHz system it boots
> > fine, an a >300 MHz system it can take 5-10 min to read the
> > image off of the floppy before it starts to compress it.
> >
> > I have seen this while using the same floppy on systems ranging
> > from 486/25 to PIII/550 but not on all systems (toshiba laptops
> > seem to be reasonably fast but many desktops dead slow) I have
> > seen this on a wide variaty of systems from dell, compaq,
> > toshiba, and a variaty of clones using different motherboards) I
> > origionally put it down to a new bug in lilo (thinking it was
> > hitting every system) until I recently updated some old P-75 and
> > 486 systems to run linux and noticed how fast they booted in
> > comparison.
> >
> > it acts as if the system is only reading a singly sector(or
> > block) per revolution of the floppy on the fast systems, but on
> > the slow systems it is able to read the whole thing quickly.
> >
> > both fast and slow systems have the same performance when
> > accessing the floppy at all times other then the lilo boot
> > process (and for that matter it is only when reading the boot
> > image, reading the root filesystem from floppy is fast)
>
> This sounds like the "compact" option has been left out of lilo.conf
> as, unless I'm mistaken, that's exactly what LILO does when it's
> missed out. You may wish to try with that included and report what
> difference it makes, if any.
>
> Best wishes from Riley.
>
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