On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Jim Jarosz wrote:
> I have linux installed on a WIN95 machine and I boot
> with a boot disk. I have set up the boot disk to
> use LILO. It works, but loading the kernel off the
> floppy takes minutes, literally.
There should be no differenace appart from the defined timeout in
/etc/lilo.conf.
It should take the same amount of time to uncompress the image on
both a boot floppy created with dd in your case, as booting from a
lilo floppy, the only differance is, the time is measured from the
time you hit enter on the lilo floppy. Or the files are not the same.
If there is a big differance and the files are the same, it could be
that one floopy is on the virge of going corrupt.
> One day I used 'dd' to transfer a copy of the kernel
> onto another floppy without LILO and the kernel
> transfers off the floppy in about 30 to 40 seconds.
>
> Would someone be kind enough to explain what makes
> such a difference? Did I make a mistake with the
> LILO disk or is this to be expected?
>
> TIA,
>
> Jim
>
> --
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> "Sweet praise is like perfume," said 34th U.S. President
> Dwight D. Eisenhower. "It is fine if you don't swallow it."
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>
>
> -
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in
> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
> Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
-- Regards Richard pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Feb 15 2000 - 21:00:19 EST