Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1377 mails)

[mantel@xxxxxxx (Hubert Mantel)]

Hi,

On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, W.D.McKinney wrote:

> I have a fairly nice Linux box:
> AMD-K6 300Mhz w/192megs 7ns ram
> 2 16bit cards
> All other are SCSI periphs.
> 
> Why is it that that the kernel that comes with 5.2 for AHA2940's
> boots slow at the start and others boot some much faster ?
> 
> At the Lilo: prompt I type linux and the I get the 
> .............etc. but it's sloooww compared to a couple of
> other SuSE systems I've seen.
> 
> Just a mystery to me ?

It's because of the Adaptec-Monster-BIOS. It has nothing to do with the
kernel but with the way LILO works: it has to do several BIOS calls in
order to load the image.

Try uncommenting the "compact"-line in /etc/lilo.conf and re-run lilo. It
works on almost every system. We do not enable the compact option by
default to be on the safe side. 

The compact option tells LILO to try to load several blocks with one
single BIOS call. The difference is substantial ;-)

> Regards
> -Dee
                                                                  -o)
    Hubert                                                        /\\
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