Loading Gentoo..... (slow)

meulie · Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 1:14 pm Post subject: Loading Gentoo..... (slow)

I know it's something basic, but don't remember what/how...

When Gentoo boots, I get 'Loading Gentoo...' (and more dots appearing), but all very slow.

After all the dots, the rest of the boot suddenly happens at full/normal speed. How do I speed up the initial part as well?
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Dragon561 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Oct 2002 Posts: 112

I don't know if this is the case as i have never had that happen before, but could it be a master-slave conflict on any of your ide busses? I know it boots slowly for me if I have the slave on the end and the master in the middle (of the ide cable).

meulie · Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2003 8:15 am Post subject:

Could be... I've not had this problem before though...

But this is the first time that I install on this particular machine, an IBM T40 Thinkpad (laptop).
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siti · Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2003 10:05 am Post subject:

this might be because you have a very large kernel (The bzImage file) so it takes a while to decompress and get it in memory. Try using modules instead of compiling in to the kernel more when appropriate

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meulie · Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2003 11:28 am Post subject:

Nah, that's not it... I have a similar kernel on a machine with half the CPU-speed and that one goes 10 times as fast through that initial part...
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