[syslinux] syslinux-3.36-pre8 feedback
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Thu Feb 8 18:06:45 PST 2007
Gilles Espinasse wrote:
> Tested floppy boot on two machines (one PII 350, one 486DX4)
>
> Floppy boot with syslinux is very very slow, more than 18 mn to boot a linux
> kernel from floppy on the 2 machines.
> Tested with 3 different disquettes that were know to work, boot is reached
> after this very long time.
> Noise from floppy head make think floppy wait approximatly one minute
> between each read.
>
Okay, I *think* I know what caused that and have pushed out a fix in
3.36-pre9. Could you please try it out for me to verify the fix?
Thanks,
-hpa
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