- the 90s delay during VGA init.
- anything else?
copying LB to RAM seems to be very slow ?!
takes about 3 - 4 seconds for the 256k image
after boot, uncompressing the kernel is much slower as under factory bios.
How many megabytes in how many seconds? is it compressed?
Its done in 8 - 9 seconds. kernel is 700k big. Well, it is a bzImage and should be compressed.
The filesystem is for any reason readonly after a boot?! Not under factory.
readonly root filesystem is the default. Maybe the boot parameters of your "other" boot loader contain "rw" ?
Waaaah, yeah I have forgotten to insert "rw" parameter for the commandline in filo.
Thanks for the hint.
chris
LinuxBIOS-1.1.8.0Fallback Wed May 3 13:49:54 CEST 2006 starting... Setting up default parameters for memory Sizing memory Probing for DIMM0 Found DIMM0 Page Size: 00001000 Component Banks: 4 Module Banks: 1 DIMM size: 04000000 Probing for DIMM1 MC_BANK_CFG = 00701420 Copying LinuxBIOS to ram.
// copying is done in 3-4 seconds for 256k
Jumping to LinuxBIOS. LinuxBIOS-1.1.8.0Fallback Wed May 3 13:49:54 CEST 2006 booting... . . . Found Linux version 2.4.22 (root@linux) #11 Sat Apr 22 18:51:23 CEST 2006 bzImage. Loading kernel... ok Loading initrd... ok Jumping to entry point...
// I'm not sure, vga console says on this point "uncompressing the kernel" // is done in 8-9 seconds kernel is 700k big // under factory this is done much faster (1-2s)
Linux version 2.4.22 (root@linux) (gcc version 3.3 20030226 (prerelease) (SuSE Linux)) #11 Sat Apr 22 18:51:23 CEST 2006