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Re: Really Ssslllllooooooowwwwwww lilo load of kernel. (fwd)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kim-Ee Yeoh)
Mon Sep 28 00:30:38 1998

Date: 	Sun, 27 Sep 1998 23:21:44 -0500 (CDT)
From: Kim-Ee Yeoh <yeoh@cs.wisc.edu>
To: "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr@baby-dragons.com>
cc: Linux Scsi maillist <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980924194035.15761D-100000@filesrv1.baby-dragons.com>

On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:

> 	symptom is an extremely slow (approx 5 minutes) load of the
> 	kernel from sda1 at present both scsi controllers share
...(snipped)

LILO booting is done through the BIOS.  Try adding the "compact" option to
lilo.conf.

What happens once Linux is loaded?  You could do some I/O benchmarks from
within Linux to find out whether the access rates are within specs. 


-- Kim-Ee Yeoh


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