Re: LILO on a TOSHIBA Laptop Satellite A200 problems with SCSI-disk ?
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 09:48:19PM +0100, Herbert S. Windows wrote:
>
> So, WHY:
> loads LILO so slowly ?
check/try 'compact' directive in lilo.conf :
"
# Enable map compaction:
# Tries to merge read requests for adjacent sectors into a single
# read request. This drastically reduces load time and keeps the
# map smaller. Using `compact' is especially recommended when
# booting from a floppy disk. It is disabled here by default
# because it doesn't always work.
#
compact
"
HTH
--
paolo
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