Public bug reported: Binary package hint: usb-creator
Starting a live session from a usb stick created with usb-creator took 7.5 minutes to start. At first it looked like it would not start at all, as it took 4 minutes before the Kubuntu boot splash screen was shown. All that time the first options screen from the live cd was shown. Starting a session via text mode (option F6, <esc>) showed vmlinuz and initrd were loading very slowly. As I had much better experience with a manually created live usb stick, I searched for the difference and found it in the syslinux call. My manual usb stick recipe [1] uses syslinux -f, usb-creator uses syslinux -s. man syslinux says for -s: Install a "safe, slow and stupid" version of syslinux. On my system, an eeepc 4G, that is apparently very true. Changing the syslinux call to syslinux -f, I got a usb stick that booted to the desktop in slightly more then 3 minutes. If there is a real need to use -s as default option, I would suggest to add an option to use syslinux without -s to usb-creator. I tested with Kubuntu intrepid i386 Alpha6 [1]: http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-install-ubuntu-linux-on-usb-bar usb-creator: Installed: 0.1.4 Candidate: 0.1.4 Version table: *** 0.1.4 0 500 http://127.0.0.1 intrepid/universe Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ** Affects: usb-creator (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Starting live session from usb stick is very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/273740 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
