Lonnie,
I'm using a Via mini-ITX C7-based motherboard: a Jetway J7F4K1G2E. This is
in the following case that includes a CF card to IDE adaptor:
http://www.mini-box.com/M300-Enclosure-w-Bootable-CF-Reader_2
This is the system that is currently running AstLinux 0.7--I'm just
swapping CF cards at this point.
cheers,
Shamus
> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:34:56 -0600
> From: Lonnie Abelbeck <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] runnix very slow--AstLinux 1.0.0
> To: astlinux-users <[email protected]>
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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>
> I'm equally stumped.
>
> What kind of hardware are you using?
>
> Lonnie
>
>
>
> On Dec 20, 2011, at 6:31 PM, Shamus Rask wrote:
>
> > Lonnie,
> >
> > This is on a new CF card; I've (wisely now) kept my "production" card
> safe. That being said, I've just tried two experiments to see if there
> would be any differences and eliminate some possible variables:
> > ? experiment 1: using a second spare CF card of different make
> (Lexar vs. Transcend), use Mac to flash image
> > ? experiment 2: try using physdiskwrite on WinXP to flash image
> instead of Mac.
> >
> > In each case, the same result was seen--over 25m to boot.
> >
> > I tried editing syslinux.cfg as per your suggestion and again, no
> improvement. I'm really scratching my head on this one!
> >
> > cheers,
> > Shamus
> >
> >
> > On 2011-12-20, at 1:46 PM, Lonnie Abelbeck wrote:
> >
> >> Shamus,
> >>
> >> I have never seen that sort of issue before, we could pursue Darrick's
> idea that it is ide DMA related.
> >>
> >> Mount your CF card on your Mac and with a text editor, edit
> "syslinux.cfg?
> >> --
> >> label runnix
> >> kernel runnix
> >> append initrd=runnix.img root=/dev/ram0 rw init=/runnix runimg=auto
> ide_core.nodma=0.0 ide_core.nodma=0.1 ide_core.nodma=1.0 ide_core.nodma=1.1
> rootdelay=10
> >> --
> >> edit to remove all the ide_core.nodma=* entries. ie...
> >> --
> >> label runnix
> >> kernel runnix
> >> append initrd=runnix.img root=/dev/ram0 rw init=/runnix runimg=auto
> rootdelay=10
> >> --
> >> If that helps, you can do that with your "os/astlinux-1.0.0.run.conf"
> KCMD line as well.
> >>
> >> Let us know if that helps.
> >>
> >> Question, did this CF card work with 0.7 ?
> >>
> >> Lonnie
> >>
> >>
> >> On Dec 20, 2011, at 12:26 PM, Shamus Rask wrote:
> >>
> >>> Lonnie,
> >>>
> >>> Please see attached. This is where the box spends a lot of time; each
> of the "." following Loading represents ~20s. They appear on the screen
> very slowly...
> >>>
> >>> cheers,
> >>> Shamus
> >>>
> >>> <screen capture.jpeg>
> >>>
> >>>> Message: 1
> >>>> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:33:18 -0600
> >>>> From: Lonnie Abelbeck <[email protected]>
> >>>> Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] runnix very slow--AstLinux 1.0.0
> >>>> To: AstLinux Users Mailing List <[email protected]
> >
> >>>> Message-ID: <[email protected]
> >
> >>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> >>>>
> >>>> Shamus,
> >>>>
> >>>> You imply this is a video console, can you take a photo of the
> console where it seems to take a long time to boot.
> >>>>
> >>>> This type of info would help alot.
> >>>>
> >>>> Lonnie
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Dec 19, 2011, at 8:51 PM, Shamus Rask wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> First of all... a huge congratulations and thank you to Lonnie,
> Derek and the other developers for reaching the 1.0 milestone--thank you!!!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I've downloaded and copied 1.0.0-Asterisk-1.8.7.1 (Generic i586)
> onto a CF card and loaded this into my existing PBX. The box is currently
> running AstLinux-0.7.10 (Asterisk 1.4.42, runnix 0.3.2). I've found that
> the new image take ~30m to boot on the box--by comparison my current
> release takes < 1m.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> When I watch the CLI following POST, I see that the following is
> what is taking the time:
> >>>>> boot:
> >>>>> Loading runnix..................
> >>>>> Loading runnix.img.............
> >>>>>
> >>>>> This is consistent between reboots.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Is there anything I can do to optimize runnix in any way? My box is
> Via C7 based.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> cheers,
> >>>>> Shamus
> >>>
> >>
> >
>
>
>
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