Public SourceMage Discussion List

[Seth Woolley <seth AT tautology.org>]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Maybe our linux spell should allow you to select compression options.

Seth

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Dufflebunk wrote:

> 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.
> >  >>
> >  >>
> >  >>
> >  >> --
> >  >> Seth Alan Woolley <seth at tautology.org>, SPAM/UCE is unauthorized
> >  >> Key id 7BEACC7D = 2978 0BD1 BA48 B671 C1EB 93F7 EDF4 3CDF 7BEA CC7D
> >  >> Full Key at seth.tautology.org and pgp.mit.edu. info: www.gnupg.org
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > _______________________________________________
> >  > SM-Discuss mailing list
> >  > SM-Discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
> >  > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/sm-discuss
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > _______________________________________________
> >  > SM-Discuss mailing list
> >  > SM-Discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
> >  > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/sm-discuss
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > SM-Discuss mailing list
> > SM-Discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
> > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/sm-discuss
>
> _______________________________________________
> SM-Discuss mailing list
> SM-Discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/sm-discuss
>

- --
Seth Alan Woolley <seth at tautology.org>, SPAM/UCE is unauthorized
Key id 7BEACC7D = 2978 0BD1 BA48 B671 C1EB 93F7 EDF4 3CDF 7BEA CC7D
Full Key at seth.tautology.org and pgp.mit.edu. info: www.gnupg.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD)

iD8DBQE/YAOw7fQ833vqzH0RApovAJkBEzAdLnYjw6DoDt/uCaf1UAjafQCeJwsG
iDOyDEhKjEIOFuABzPBxMaw=
=qiG/
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----