Re: [LinuxBIOS] MB1030 / 3036 VGA comes up :D

[Russell Whitaker]

On Wed, 3 May 2006, Christian Sühs wrote:
> > > > 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.

in linux, the root is first mounted read only. the boot process does a 
file system check and if no errors then remounts rw.

russ