[syslinux] syslinux-3.36-pre8 feedback

[Gilles Espinasse]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>
Cc: "Gilles Espinasse" <g.esp at free.fr>; <syslinux at zytor.com>
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 3:36 AM
Subject: Re: [syslinux] syslinux-3.36-pre8 feedback


> 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...
>
Look good for me booting syslinux.
I will make this version available to the person who had the regression from
syslinux-2.11 to 3.11 and 3.20.

Thank

    Gilles