Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Feb 2000 18:27:43 +0000 (GMT) | From | Riley Williams <> | Subject | Re: Slow booting |
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On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, David Lang wrote:
>> 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.
> It is not there (I am useing the stock slackware disks) I will > try this and see what happens.
Nodz.
> why does this not cause a problem on the slower/older machines?
I would presume they are just slow enough not to be able to read two consecutive sectors on the floppy in a single rotation. However, that's simply guesswork, I've no real idea...
Best wishes from Riley.
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