Linux-kernel mailing list archive 2000-07,: Re: Slow booting

# Re: Slow booting

David Lang (dlang@diginsite.com)
Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:27:52 -0800 (PST)

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Update:
adding the compact option does solve the problem

I guess the older machines floppy controllers did some caching on the
controller that is not done on some of the new machines and therefor
when the code makes all the seperate requests the older controllers are
able to deliver the data while the newer controllers have to do another
seek to get the data.

one interesting sidenote.
without using the compact option lilo shows "reading kernel
image........" with several dots appearing as time goes on and data is
read, with the compact option it only shows a single dot and that only
when it has read the entire kernel image.

David Lang

On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Riley Williams wrote:

> 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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