Darrick, Unfortunately the CF reader I have has a non-removable IDE cable. I'll see if I can find another CF reader that would allow me to test the IDE cable.
cheers, Shamus On 2011-12-22, at 5:27 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Message: 6 > Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:27:18 +0000 > From: Darrick Hartman <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] runnix very slow--AstLinux 1.0.0 > To: "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > This might be crazy, but have you tried replacing your ide cable? > > Sent from my Android phone using TouchDown (www.nitrodesk.com) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lonnie Abelbeck [[email protected]] > Received: Wednesday, 21 Dec 2011, 2:54pm > To: AstLinux Users Mailing List [[email protected]] > Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] runnix very slow--AstLinux 1.0.0 > > Shamus, > > This is very weird, to me this is a 'syslinux' issue, but may be caused by a > corrupted download as Michael suggested. If you normally use a c7 image, try > a geni685 image instead or vice versa. > > Other than that, your 0.7 runnix bootloader is using syslinux 3.35, while the > new runnix uses syslinux 3.86. We have been shipping syslinux 3.86 for fresh > 0.7 images for some time. No reports like this. > > Question, after syslinux finally boots runnix, do things work as expected > after that? > > Very weird... Like the clock speed is 1000x slower. > > Lonnie > > > > > On Dec 21, 2011, at 9:29 AM, Shamus Rask wrote: > >> I have now tried with a Transcend, Lexar and SanDisk Ultra--all 4GB, all >> producing the same results. Boot time is > 25m. >> >> I have posted two videos to YouTube... boring I know, but may provide some >> intelligence? The first video is of starting to boot into AstLinux 1.0.0--I >> stop it after the "Loading runnix..." prompt appears. The second video is of >> booting into my working copy of AstLinux 0.7. There is a noticeable >> difference! >> AstLinux 1.0.0: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GizF9Z4Znv0 >> AStLinux 0.7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd0lOpmgdW8 >> >> cheers, >> Shamus >> >> >> On 2011-12-21, at 3:44 AM, [email protected] >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Message: 5 >>> Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:44:27 +0100 >>> From: Michael Keuter <[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=windows-1252 >>> >>> >>> Am 21.12.2011 um 01:31 schrieb Shamus Rask: >>> >>>> 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 >>> >>> Do you have a chance to try a SanDisk CF card (I only use Ultra II cards). >>> >>> Michael >>> >>> http://www.mksolutions.info ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [email protected].
