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  • From: Duane Malcolm <d.malcolm AT auckland.ac.nz>
  • To: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Slow bootup when uncompressing kernel
  • Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:37:21 +1200

I installed Mandrake 8.2 using an XFS and ext3 partition and there was
no difference. I do know that I put an image from my maching on a 200MHz
PII and it uncompresses the kernel image in less than a second. This
pissed me off. I might look into the bios. I don't understand how the
acpi can kick in from the kernel if you haven't uncompressed the kernel.

Anyway, I'll keep going and tell you when I give up and accept my fate.

Duane.

Duane Malcolm wrote:
> Seth Woolley wrote:
>
>> Something tells me that's way too long... is this a laptop? Could be
>> some
>> acpi buggery and on bootup it starts in a slow state until acpi kicks in.
>> How are non-smgl partitions behaving, or is it just our kernels?
>
> It is a laptop. I was considering quickly putting mandrake on to test if
> it's my smgl or not. I'll reply on this soon.
>
>>
>> On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Duane Malcolm wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> This is a bit different but it is starting to really annoy me.
>>>
>>> I have an Compaq Evo N160, PIII 1.2 Ghz, 30G HD and 750 MB RAM. When I
>>> boot up, it gets into lilo fine and when I choose one of my sourcemage
>>> partition it takes 15-20 seconds to uncompress the kernel image. The
>>> rest of the boot up goes fine. I have searched the web and tried a
>>> number of things but haven't been lucky. Does anyone have an idea?
>>>
>>> Cheers, Duane.
>>
>>
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