Re: LILO on a TOSHIBA Laptop Satellite A200 problems with SCSI-disk ?

["Herbert S." <herbert.schwarzer@aon.at>]

Thanks!
After trying several other methods (querying the whole 'www' searching for 
LILO + BIOS check) I  DID NOT think about this simple method.
Again (after several years using Debian) I have learned:
Read The fu....  manual  
:)
Thanks to paolo:  compact indeed works fine.

herbert

Am Sunday 14 December 2008 23:02:20 schrieb Paolo:
> 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