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[Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>]

It's a long shot, but are you sure the PII image was compressed? Might
it have been an uncompressed image? That would make the boot much
faster...

On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 17:37, Duane Malcolm wrote:
> 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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