[ale] slow floppies
Byron A Jeff
byron at cc.gatech.edu
Fri Jul 6 11:47:03 EDT 2001
> I have a lilo boot disk and it boots up slowly on some machines. I've
> noticed thin on Toshiba laptops and DG Avion boxes. It can take as much as
> 3 minutes or more to load a 600k kernel. On a nice clone, it can take less
> then 30 seconds to load that kernel. Is there a setting that needs to be
> placed in the lilo.conf file?
I don't think so. I've found that IBM machines are notoriously and universally
slow with boot floppies. I'm certain that it's a function of the BIOS.
BAJ
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