I'm equally stumped.

What kind of hardware are you using?

Lonnie



On Dec 20, 2011, at 6:31 PM, Shamus Rask wrote:

> Lonnie,
> 
> This is on a new CF card; I've (wisely now) kept my "production" card safe. 
> That being said, I've just tried two experiments to see if there would be any 
> differences and eliminate some possible variables:
>       • experiment 1: using a second spare CF card of different make (Lexar 
> vs. Transcend), use Mac to flash image
>       • experiment 2: try using physdiskwrite on WinXP to flash image instead 
> of Mac.
> 
> In each case, the same result was seen--over 25m to boot.
> 
> I tried editing syslinux.cfg as per your suggestion and again, no 
> improvement. I'm really scratching my head on this one!
> 
> cheers,
>    Shamus
> 
> 
> On 2011-12-20, at 1:46 PM, Lonnie Abelbeck wrote:
> 
>> Shamus,
>> 
>> I have never seen that sort of issue before, we could pursue Darrick's idea 
>> that it is ide DMA related.
>> 
>> Mount your CF card on your Mac and with a text editor, edit "syslinux.cfg?
>> --
>> label runnix
>>    kernel runnix
>>    append initrd=runnix.img root=/dev/ram0 rw init=/runnix runimg=auto 
>> ide_core.nodma=0.0 ide_core.nodma=0.1 ide_core.nodma=1.0 ide_core.nodma=1.1 
>> rootdelay=10
>> --
>> edit to remove all the ide_core.nodma=* entries. ie...
>> --
>> label runnix
>>    kernel runnix
>>    append initrd=runnix.img root=/dev/ram0 rw init=/runnix runimg=auto 
>> rootdelay=10
>> --
>> If that helps, you can do that with your "os/astlinux-1.0.0.run.conf" KCMD 
>> line as well.
>> 
>> Let us know if that helps.
>> 
>> Question, did this CF card work with 0.7 ?
>> 
>> Lonnie
>> 
>> 
>> On Dec 20, 2011, at 12:26 PM, Shamus Rask wrote:
>> 
>>> Lonnie,
>>> 
>>> Please see attached. This is where the box spends a lot of time; each of 
>>> the "." following Loading represents ~20s. They appear on the screen very 
>>> slowly...
>>> 
>>> cheers,
>>>  Shamus
>>> 
>>> <screen capture.jpeg>
>>> 
>>>> Message: 1
>>>> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:33:18 -0600
>>>> From: Lonnie Abelbeck <[email protected]>
>>>> Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] runnix very slow--AstLinux 1.0.0
>>>> To: AstLinux Users Mailing List <[email protected]>
>>>> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>>>> 
>>>> Shamus,
>>>> 
>>>> You imply this is a video console, can you take a photo of the console 
>>>> where it seems to take a long time to boot.
>>>> 
>>>> This type of info would help alot.
>>>> 
>>>> Lonnie
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Dec 19, 2011, at 8:51 PM, Shamus Rask wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> First of all... a huge congratulations and thank you to Lonnie, Derek and 
>>>>> the other developers for reaching the 1.0 milestone--thank you!!!
>>>>> 
>>>>> I've downloaded and copied 1.0.0-Asterisk-1.8.7.1 (Generic i586) onto a 
>>>>> CF card and loaded this into my existing PBX. The box is currently 
>>>>> running AstLinux-0.7.10 (Asterisk 1.4.42, runnix 0.3.2). I've found that 
>>>>> the new image take ~30m to boot on the box--by comparison my current 
>>>>> release takes < 1m. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> When I watch the CLI following POST, I see that the following is what is 
>>>>> taking the time:
>>>>> boot:
>>>>> Loading runnix..................
>>>>> Loading runnix.img.............
>>>>> 
>>>>> This is consistent between reboots.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Is there anything I can do to optimize runnix in any way? My box is Via 
>>>>> C7 based.
>>>>> 
>>>>> cheers,
>>>>> Shamus
>>> 
>> 
> 


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