On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Fethi A. Okyar wrote: > I am wondering why in the world does my floppy get > sooo slow while its reading the kernle image during > a boot process?? > > It takes approximately 5-6 minutes until it finishes > just reading the kernel image and then bang!! 2 seconds > to decompress it. > > Are there any parameters that I have to tweak when I > get the boot: mesage, so that I can speed the process?
I posted the same question recently and received some kind responses however so far I'm still in slow motion. The behavior of the floppy suggests to me the low level formatting of the floppy is not optimal, i.e. perhaps the interleaving in incorrect causing the floppy to rotate once for each sector read. Or it maybe something entirely different. I believe this problem first appeared in Debian 2.0.
