[syslinux] some questions about isolinux

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Sat Jun 1 12:04:04 PDT 2002


redseb wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> First of all, thank you for your great work !!
> 
> There are my (stupid ?) questions :
> Why loading (kernel and initrd) is so slow ? Is it a limitation beacuse
> using BIOS's calls ?
> What can I do to accelerate that ? (if possible of course ...)
> 
> Once again, thank you very much for your absoluty amazing isolinux !
> 

"Why loading kernel and initrd is so slow"... on all systems I have 
tried, ISOLINUX is fast enough that I don't have time to count the dots 
as it prints them out.  The CD-ROM BIOS calls do *not* suffer from a lot 
of the same braindamage that the floppy BIOS does, unfortunately it is 
frequently implemented extremely poorly.  I would guess your system 
falls in that category.  I don't see a way around it, at least not 
without knowing in detail the exact pathology of your system...

	-hpa





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