RE: SLOW boot disk?
At 08:29 AM 2/24/1999 -0900, Hogland, Thomas E. wrote:
>> > 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...
>
Just a couple of things to check. Maybe the floppy itself has a bad sector.
Maybe the CMOS is set to the wrong type (720 instead of 1.4, etc) and that
may be causing read problems. Both of these might cause slowness without
causing error messages.
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