[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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