Hi,
On Mon, 3 May 2004, Lorenzo Fiorentini wrote:
Hello,
Can you confirm that the "Loading...................." phase of boot is VERY VERY slow (30 to 45 sec)?
Well, I was having the same symptom when booting my Thinkpad X30 from IDE-harddisk, no initrd. So indeed it does not seem to depend on which module initrd will load - and it does not seem to be a USB issue either, since my internal HDD has this symptom as well...
I solved this by adding (i.e. uncommenting) the 'compact' option.
I will try with "compact"
How do you explain that?
I have absolutely no idea.
I guess it has something to do with the BIOS - as both my old P3-500 and my new Celeron1000A (boards by FIC and Abit, Award BIOS) on my desktop PC don't have these symptoms
You mean that the same HDD with the same LILO is faster when connected to a different motherboard?
One more thing: Could it be so slow because I have 'lba32' in my lilo.conf? I don't well understand about the 'linear' 'lba32' and the 'chs' or 'cylinder/head/sector' settings (I have always relied on LBA being set at partition level) but I want to try changing them.
What are the right 'chs' values to try? (those reported from fdisk/sfdisk (under knoppix), or those printed on the hardware tag?) And, about the difference between using them in "append= .... " and in "disk /dev/sda" option, am I right to say that only the latter may influence the bootloader behaviour?
Thank you bery much again
Lorenzo
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