Re: Slow linux.bin

[- _ r a r o h _ - <raroh@gmx.net>]

Hallo,

Ron Johnson wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 08:48, - _ r a r o h _ - wrote:
>  
>
> > Hallo,
> >
> > installed woody with booting from floppy - it takes 4 minutes to read 
> > the floppy. I hear the movement of the floppy some 20 seconds ...
> >
> > Any idea how to fix ?
> >    
>
> 4 minutes to read a 1.44MB floppy?  That was dog slow even in 1990.
>
> Have you looked in /var/log/syslog?  
here is th syslog with the time-gap even 5 minutes :

Nov  2 16:43:16 deba init: Switching to runlevel: 6
....
Nov  2 16:43:20 deba lwresd[201]: shutting down
Nov  2 16:43:20 deba lwresd[199]: exiting
Nov  2 16:43:20 deba kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.
Nov  2 16:43:20 deba kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating.
Nov  2 16:43:20 deba exiting on signal 15
Nov  2 16:48:21 deba syslogd 1.4.1#10: restart.


> Did you hear the FDD clicking
> and whining like it there's a bad sector on the disk?
>
>  
there is no noise like bad sectors ...

Pavel Sokol