[LinuxBIOS] Bochs is too slow while loading the Linux
Stefan Reinauer
stepan at openbios.org
Wed Nov 30 19:05:51 CET 2005
Sir,
> Linux kernel size is around 512 MB.
> Bochs is taking around 12 sec to load Linux which is unacceptable
> as per as system requirements.
You will probably have to get a faster hard drive. With the numbers you
provided this gets down to about 43 Megabytes per second, which is not
too bad.
The question is:
- Why do you need such a big kernel?
> Bochs itself is too slow in executing the things.
> I observed that it is around 20 times slow than LinuxBIOS which is
> executing before Bochs.
>
> Please help me in fixing this problem.
> Thanks in advance
Use LinuxBIOS directly, or use filo.
http://www.linuxbios.org/index.php/FILO
Best regards,
Stefan
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