On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 04:04:30PM -0600, Jason D. Clinton wrote:

> Also, when forced to use the LILO boot loader because of a RAID
> +LVM /boot, LILO takes *forever* to actually load the initramfs from the
> physical media. Parade of dots followed by "BIOS data check successful"
> occurs while waiting.

Add "COMPACT" to lilo.conf. According to the documentation it may
interfere with "LBA32" on some systems (LBA32 is needed for booting
above 1024 cylinders) so I understand that it is not the default,
although I've never seen a machine where it'd have caused problems.

Gabor

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