Luis R Finotti wrote:
Dear all,

I just tried to install Sarge in my laptop: Pentium M (Centrino) 1.6GHz, 1Gb of RAM. (For more info: http://www.uniwill.com/products/other/244ii0/244ii0_print.php)

The installation went OK, but the 1st boot took over 1 hour. (The rest of the installation took several hours.) I had Mandrake in this laptop before, and had a similar problem, which was fixed by installing the kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk-i586-up-1GB. (Knoppix works fine too.) I thought that the problem would be resolved with the installation of a kernel with HIGHMEM4G enabled.

The default kernel was 2.6.8-2-686, and I checked that HIGHMEM4G was enabled in it. I also tried 2.6.8-2-686-smp and 2.6.11-1-686 from testing, all with the same result (over 1 hour to boot).
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OK, kernel-2.6.8-2-386 works a lot better. It boots in a normal time and seems to work fine, but I felt a lack in the performance. (It seems it does not recognize all the memory either.)

I will try to recompile changing a few options, but at least now the laptop is quite usable.

Best,

Luis


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