RE: SLOW boot disk - missing 'compact' option?
I had the same thing happen: 5+minute load for some boot floppies, others
ran 'normally' (<60 seconds). Is this what the LILO "COMPACT" option
addresses?
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From: Hogland, Thomas E.
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org; 'MallarJ@aol.com'
Subject: RE: SLOW boot disk?
Date: Wednesday, February 24, 1999 9:29AM
> > Curiosity question here: I dual-boot Debian and Win95 by using a boot
> disk
> > for Debian (it's partition is the last 1.2GB on a 6.4GB disk, so LILO
> > doesn't like booting it). The book disk takes a LONG time to boot - 2
> or 3
> > minutes just to do the initial load, then it starts loading off the HD
> and
> > everything flies... I just created a boot disk during the install, same
> as
> > on another PC I use, but the home one is slow, while the work one is
> nice
> > and fast... Any ideas?
>
> Yah - use loadlin. It will do almost the same thing as LILO but without
> chaning the boot record.
>
Also have the LinLod95 package installed - when I want to swap from 95 to
Linux I just fire it up and go. I was just wondering why a floppy could boot
so slowly...
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