[ale] slow floppies

[krugerb at benning.army.mil (Bob Kruger)]

Byron A Jeff wrote:

> > I have a lilo boot disk and it boots up slowly on some machines.  I've
> > noticed thin on Toshiba laptops and DG Avion boxes.  It can take as much as
> > 3 minutes or more to load a 600k kernel.  On a nice clone, it can take less
> > then 30 seconds to load that kernel.  Is there a setting that needs to be
> > placed in the lilo.conf file?
>
> I don't think so. I've found that IBM machines are notoriously and universally
> slow with boot floppies. I'm certain that it's a function of the BIOS.
>

Same goes with a three year old Micron Millenium I have here.  Boot up from a
floppy takes about 5 minutes.  Fortunately, that does not happen too often....

Bob

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