I got the same latency w/ the floppy boot disk created from initial install. i'm using a w2k <--work laptop & woody dual boot and 'load linux' takes about 2mins (forever) on a p3700. I'll probably go back to lilo though the lilo mbr I had from potato got 'upgraded' and 'hosed' my mbr-- lots of l01's across the screen. I grabbed a 98 boot disk and fdisk /mbr so I could get back to work; then; later tried to run lilo config again and again following the lilo walkthrough without success. I don't however know what kind of boot disk it is; probably the kernel image. justin
-----Original Message----- From: Karsten M. Self [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 2:32 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: why boot using floppy is very slow? on Mon, Feb 25, 2002, debianlist ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I boot my DEbian 2.2R4 using floppy,but the process is very > slow..at least much slower than other linux distr...how can i > improve the speed based on boot by floopy...(there is no hardware > problem) i have a 2.2r4 boot floppy,,can i boot 2.2r5? What type of boot floppies are you comparing? There are several distinct types of boot floppy: - A LILO MBR on floppy pointing to a kernel and root partition on hard disk. This will boot nearly as fast as an HR LILO configuration. Other boot methods may be used, e.g.: syslinux, LOADLIN.EXE. - A kernel image. This loads a kernel image from floppy but (usually) mounts a hard drive. - A rescue disk, usually with a kernel and/or minimal root filesystem, e.g.: Tom's Root Boot. Floppy access is *slow*. If you're reading significant data from disk, be prepared to wait 20 seconds to a minute. My boot kernel is 578 KiB on disk, about 40% the capacity of a floppy, a good chunk of data. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
