Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 23:31:55 +0100 From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: babkin@users.sf.net Cc: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org, Scott Long <scottl@pooker.samsco.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile Message-ID: <86wtge4so4.fsf@xps.des.no> In-Reply-To: <9170456.1138812837533.JavaMail.root@vms171.mailsrvcs.net> (Sergey Babkin's message of "Wed, 01 Feb 2006 10:53:57 -0600 (CST)") References: <9170456.1138812837533.JavaMail.root@vms171.mailsrvcs.net>
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Sergey Babkin <babkin@verizon.net> writes: > A 30MB image gets loaded from CD in no time, but loading it from an > USB flash drive took almost forever, easily half an hour or > so. Maybe the BIOSes became more clever since then. It should not take more than ~30 seconds, even with USB 1.x. If it takes half an hour, I suspect GRUB is doing something stupid like reading it one sector at a time (requiring a switch to x86 mode for every 512 bytes read) DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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