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#1 2004-11-21 03:20:28
- wincen
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kernel boots slooooow, installed wombat 2.6 IDE
Well, I just installed arch 0.7 beta on my new laptop, t42, but the kernel loads so freaking slow! even when going through all the boot sequence it is slow. It's a brand new laptop, 1.7 Pentium M, why does it boot up slower than red hat on a pentium 133? windows loads very quickly. Could it be speed step? is there a setting I gotta tweak?
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#2 2004-11-21 08:12:16
- LB06
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Re: kernel boots slooooow, installed wombat 2.6 IDE
Exactly what part is slow?
You could try setting compact in /etc/lilo.conf (make sure you have some kind of rescue-cd in case it doesn't work properly).
If the entire boot proces is slow, it may have something to do with your harddrive settings. Do you have a SATA harddrive? When I installed Arch on my desktop pc with a SATA drive and chose the stock ide kernel, it was pretty damn slow too. When I installed the stock scsi kernel everything worked as planned.
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#3 2004-11-21 21:41:14
- wincen
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Re: kernel boots slooooow, installed wombat 2.6 IDE
I reintsalled arch with the scsi enabled kernel this time. The part that still slow is after I select arch from LILO and it says "Loading arch" and all the periods follow. I guess it's the BIOS check part.
Although, afterwards that's loaded, the rest of the boot process isn't as fast as windows? Is there a way to speed it up? Is it compiling your own kernel?
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#4 2004-11-21 22:25:18
- dp
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Re: kernel boots slooooow, installed wombat 2.6 IDE
I reintsalled arch with the scsi enabled kernel this time. The part that still slow is after I select arch from LILO and it says "Loading arch" and all the periods follow. I guess it's the BIOS check part.
Although, afterwards that's loaded, the rest of the boot process isn't as fast as windows? Is there a way to speed it up? Is it compiling your own kernel?
the "loading" part in the begning is slow, because you do not use compact in lilo
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