Per Jessen
2007-Feb-10 17:49 UTC
[syslinux] slow loading after using timeout and vesamenu.c32
All, I've been setting up an etherboot-PXE-syslinux environment for booting a number of HP/Compaq servers. Today I was playing around with using vesamenu and background pictures, and I noticed a weird behaviour when I used vesamenu.c32 with and without a timeout. I will obviously be needing a timeout for unattended operation, but whilst I was testing I had it disabled most of the time. However, when I finally enabled the timeout, I noticed the loading of the boot-image (linux something) suddenly took much longer - much longer than I had the patience to wait for. We're talking several minutes instead of a few seconds. What am I doing wrong? (I'll post config files as needed, but I thought someone might recognise the behaviour?). /Per Jessen, Z?rich