RE: SLOW boot disk?
> > 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?
>
> This is because we use the -s (== slow, stupid, _safe_) option on
> them, because we wanted the discs to boot on every PC.
> There is a resc1440-fast.bin disk image in the disks-i386
> directory. Try it.
>
Will have to try it, but will the resc1440 disks boot to the HD-installed
stuff? (I thought they were set up to boot for an install...)
Hmmm, boot option of "linux root=/dev/hda2" maybe?
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