[syslinux] New 'quiet' behavior - optional?

[Lucas De Marchi]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 17:45, Lucas De Marchi
> <lucas.demarchi at profusion.mobi> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> That said, an easy workaround is to load a UI that overwrites that
>>> portion of the screen.  There was a discussion in the last few months
>>> about trying to make it look like it's silent to the user when things
>>> move fast enough.
>>
>> That didn't work for me. I can see the message by a fraction of second
>> before the graphical UI overwrites it.
>
> What media are you loading from?  From personal experience, I've found
> CDs the slowest, especially slim drives, with TFTP, HDD and flash to
> be very close but dependent on a few variables.  A simple optimization
> on CDs is to reduce the random seeking by naming files in a line
> (preferably with nothing inbetween).  I think names of isolinux.bin,
> isolinux.cfg, vesamenu.c32 and vesamenu.cfg should cram these files
> together in sequence in an ISO.

I'm loading from HDD. I don't think I can do any better to speed up my
slow drive.


Lucas De Marchi