[syslinux] syslinux-3.36-pre8 feedback

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Thu Feb 8 18:36:16 PST 2007


H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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?
> 

Bloody hades, I forgot to push the git tree out before building for 
release, on another machine.

Pushing 3.36-pre10, *with* the fix this time...

	-hpa




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