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[Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>]

basically if your bios is broken you may not be able to load a compressed
kernel, or at least thats what i hear is the reason for leaving that
stuff in the kernel build process.

On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 01:21:40AM -0400, Jeremy A. Kolb wrote:
> I've never known anyone to not compress their kernel.  What's the reason 
> for not compressing it? Other than a slightly slower bootup (a couple 
> seconds at the most) what are the advantages/disadvantages?
> 
> Jeremy
> 
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Seth Woolley wrote:
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> > 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.
> > > >  >>
> > > >  >>
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