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[Duane Malcolm <d.malcolm AT auckland.ac.nz>]

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Oh yeah, that was what I was going to mention and try next, but I was in
a hurry to get to friday 5 o'clock drinkies, which I was 5 minute late
to. So I forgot. I have no experience in grub, but I'll have a go tommorow.

Cheers.

Dufflebunk wrote:
| If you think it's LILO, have you tried grub?
|
| On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 01:02, Duane Malcolm wrote:
|
|>Hamish Greig wrote:
|> > - From "man lilo" but whether it can cause slow boot as well as the
|>hang you
|> > would need to find out.
|> > nobd   Suppresses the BIOS data check.  This option is reserved for use
|> >               with non-IBM-compliant BIOS's which hang with the lines:
|> >
|> >                    Loading...............
|> >                    BIOS data check
|> >
|> > Hamish
|>The problem isn't after the "BIOS data check" but during the
|>"Loading..............." part, this takes 15-20 sec. I tried the "nobd"
|>and it still boots but doesn't load/uncompress the kernel faster.
|>
|>To add to the mix. The kernel is uncompressed faster from the Sourcemage
|>boot CD. I don't know why I didn't try this earlier. I think I noticed
|>an "initrd" which I have been thinking about trying but am not sure how
|>it works or how to do it.
|>
|>To me this result kind of points to lilo not knowing how to access the
|>disc properly. But I don't understand the boot-up process to say
|>anymore. What do others think??
|>
|>Maybe, I'll boot from CD all the time.
|>
|>Duane.
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