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  • From: Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • To: Duane Malcolm <d.malcolm AT auckland.ac.nz>
  • Cc: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Slow bootup when uncompressing kernel
  • Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 04:50:13 -0000

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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