Shamus, If you want to play, and have a USB Flash drive laying around, and assuming your BIOS will boot using USB (current Jetway's will), you could install a fresh image to the USB Drive and give it a try.
You may need to add "rootdelay=5" to your .run.conf KCMD line, but one step at a time. The problem you are describing is with syslinux, before the RUNNIX kernel and much before AstLinux... Hmmm... Question with the CF card, after it is booted, does it run correctly? proper speed? Lonnie On Dec 20, 2011, at 6:56 PM, Shamus Rask wrote: > Lonnie, > > I'm using a Via mini-ITX C7-based motherboard: a Jetway J7F4K1G2E. This is in > the following case that includes a CF card to IDE adaptor: > http://www.mini-box.com/M300-Enclosure-w-Bootable-CF-Reader_2 > > This is the system that is currently running AstLinux 0.7--I'm just swapping > CF cards at this point. > > cheers, > Shamus > > > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:34:56 -0600 > From: Lonnie Abelbeck <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] runnix very slow--AstLinux 1.0.0 > To: astlinux-users <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > > 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 > >>> > >> > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Write once. Port to many. > Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create > new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. 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