I recently installed Mandrake 6 on a 450 pentium box and, although it
runs well, it seems very slow to initially load up. I have redhat 6
running on an old 486 and it loads MUCH faster. Here is the difference,
it takes forever for the LILO prompt to come up after the basic bios
settings display is finished. Sometimes I even have to restart to get it
to come up at all. It then takes almost forever for the "loading linux"
to finish. After that point all is normal in the startup process. Both
of these aspects are very fast on my old 486 with redhat. Any ideas what
could be causing this?
Regards,
Eric Mings Ph.D.
