tom ehlert wrote:Hi Lin,
Complete boot-up requires about 18 seconds, which is rather long for an instrument. If I connect a keyboard, and floppy adapter, boot-up drops to about 13 seconds. Is there any way I can tell the kernel not to look
for these devices and prevent the delay?
1'st, kernel 1.1.23 is ~2 years old (and full of bugs). however, if it works for you, why not continue to use it?
2'nd, IMO the boot delay is caused by the BIOS to detect the devices.
it's very unlikely the kernel takes more then 1-2 seconds from the time you see 'freedos loading' to EXEC('command.com').
disabling them in the BIOS should help. OR, is the delay with MSDOS different ?
tom
Mr. Tom:
What is IMO ??? Could you decribe it more detail or tell me where I can find the information, please.
IMO=In My Opinion (I guess).
It would be quite a valuable bunch of information if you can report the results of the testing by trying the LATEST kernel:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freedos/
and to repeat the testings with MS-DOS if you have it, so that we compare and see if we can blame FreeDOS kernel of being slow. :)
Aitor
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