I had the same thing happen: 5+minute load for some boot floppies, others ran 'normally' (<60 seconds). Is this what the LILO "COMPACT" option addresses? ---------- From: Hogland, Thomas E. To: debian-user@lists.debian.org; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: SLOW boot disk? Date: Wednesday, February 24, 1999 9:29AM
> > Curiosity question here: I dual-boot Debian and Win95 by using a boot > disk > > for Debian (it's partition is the last 1.2GB on a 6.4GB disk, so LILO > > doesn't like booting it). The book disk takes a LONG time to boot - 2 > or 3 > > minutes just to do the initial load, then it starts loading off the HD > and > > everything flies... I just created a boot disk during the install, same > as > > on another PC I use, but the home one is slow, while the work one is > nice > > and fast... Any ideas? > > Yah - use loadlin. It will do almost the same thing as LILO but without > chaning the boot record. > Also have the LinLod95 package installed - when I want to swap from 95 to Linux I just fire it up and go. I was just wondering why a floppy could boot so slowly... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
