Re: boot floppies and syslinux "-s" mode
Just one comment. If you have a fast box (Pentium) there is a hight chance
you also have a CD-Rom. I think the only people booting from floppy are
the ones with old 486 and the -s option doesn't make much difference
in that case (or does it?). Ciao,
Federico
On Sun, Jul 19, 1998 at 10:24:23PM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote:
> As you may know, our current boot floppy for i386 uses syslinux as its
> bootloader. It uses syslinux "safe, slow and stupid" mode to be able to
> boot in machines with weird BIOSes. The problem is that mode is painfully
> slow (I've received reports of ~4 minutes to boot in several machines,
> including some new Pentium II!).
>
> As CDs are a lot faster than floppies, it's OK to use "-s" for the boot
> image on the official CDs, but I'm thinking about going back to the normal
> mode for the floppy images, and adding a README file giving instructions
> for replacing syslinux on the rescue floppy to build a "-s" floppy, just
> in case the user has one of the machines that don't like the normal mode.
> (It as simple as inserting the floppy on the drive and running
> "syslinux -s /dev/fd0" as root). That information may be added to the
> install docs instead/also.
>
> As there's a minor problem in the current boot-flopies set (dselect adds
> some packages to the ones selected using "profiles", sometimes leading
> to conflicts), we probably need another boot-floppies release one way or
> the other.
>
> Comments?
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> Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
>
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