On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, James Dietrich wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 10:37:18AM -0500, Fethi A. Okyar wrote: > > > > I am wondering why in the world does my floppy get > > sooo slow while its reading the kernle image during > > a boot process?? > > > > It takes approximately 5-6 minutes until it finishes > > just reading the kernel image and then bang!! 2 seconds > > to decompress it. > > I have had the same problem myself--here are a few more details > that may be helpful in figuring this out. > > I installed Debian 2.1 and the Custom Boot Floppy it made during > the initial install takes _forever_ to boot. However, I later > made my own boot disk using the Bootdisk HOWTO and it booted up > at a normal speed. It appears to me, then, that it isn't the > fault of the drive itself or the floppy disk, but rather something > about the way the boot disk is created during the install process. > Interestingly enough, the rescue disk also boots at a normal speed > on the same computer. BTW, this was not a problem for me when I > installed an earlier version of Debian several years ago. > > Does anyone with more knowledge about boot disks have any > idea why there is such a large discrepancy between the booting > time off the rescue floppy and the custom boot floppy created > during install? > > Thanks. > James
Moments ago I just recompiled my kernel and produced a custom boot disk- oh joy, now my floppy boots at normal speed! Earlier George Bonser indicated that a boot floppy made with the tecra-safe.bin images exhibited "this feature" of a slow boot, however I had not used that image so I did not think this was the problem. The Debian 2.0 and 2.1 install procedure produces a slow floppy boot which was not the case pre 2.0.
