To: Syslinux From: John Plunkett When Syslinux is used with floppy disks with a 1.44 MB format the boot proceeds at a good speed with no problems. When a format over 1.44 MB is used, the boot takes up to ten minutes. Is there a special setting for booting from floppy disks over 1.44 MB's? Is there documentation on how to configure with floppy disks with a format over 1.44 MB's? Thanks,
On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 08:48:48AM +1000, websol1 wrote:> From: John Plunkett >? > When Syslinux is used with floppy disks with a 1.44 MB format the boot > proceeds at a good speed with no problems. When a format over 1.44 MB > is used, the boot takes up to ten minutes. Is there a special setting > for booting from floppy disks over 1.44 MB's? > Is there documentation on how to configure with floppy disks with a > format over 1.44 MB's? >? > Thanks, >Interesting. Not sure this is the same thing I'm seeing or not. Mine may seem like 10 minutes, but it takes a long time to load initrd.gz and vmilunz. The message file displays ok, but the loading, 3 maybe up to 4 times as long as normal. But then, after "ready." prints out, it reboots and starts all over again. Using 1.68 MB formatted floppy. Still troubleshooting, but don't know yet if it may be something I'm doing wrong. Testing was with revisions 1.67 and 1.72. I know its worked on earlier versions(1.48). BTW, I had an earlier posting on serial output as a console with no video card installed. The message file only prints 15 characters on each line then wraps to the next line. Everything after the message file prints ok. Any ideas? Thanks, Jim -- Jim Murphy friartek at xnet.com Debian/RedHat/FloppyFW
Hi! Have you tried using 2.88 floppy images? They are standard and I think most BIOSes support them correctly. p.s. in Windows you can convert your 1.68 to 2.88 without loosing boot with winimage. -----Original Message----- From: websol1 [mailto:websol1 at attbi.com] Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 11:49 PM To: syslinux at zytor.com Subject: [syslinux] boot speed To: Syslinux From: John Plunkett When Syslinux is used with floppy disks with a 1.44 MB format the boot proceeds at a good speed with no problems. When a format over 1.44 MB is used, the boot takes up to ten minutes. Is there a special setting for booting from floppy disks over 1.44 MB's? Is there documentation on how to configure with floppy disks with a format over 1.44 MB's? Thanks, _______________________________________________ SYSLINUX mailing list Submissions to SYSLINUX at zytor.com Unsubscribe or set options at: http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/syslinux
Let me rephrase that: <Windows user assumed> Suppose you have a working 1.68 or 1.73 physical floppy with everything you need already prepared. Then, you open winimage, create an image from the physical floppy, convert the format to 2.88, save it in an uncompressed format (.IMA) and then feed it to isolinux. That was what I meant on my previous post. -----Original Message----- From: H. Peter Anvin [mailto:hpa at zytor.com] Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 9:33 AM To: Luis.F.Correia Cc: syslinux at zytor.com Subject: Re: [syslinux] boot speed Luis.F.Correia wrote:> Hi! > > Have you tried using 2.88 floppy images? > > They are standard and I think most BIOSes support them correctly. >They do, but you need different physical media. -hpa