Le Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:00:13 +0200 (CEST) Michael Schmitz <[email protected]> a _crit:
> Hi, > > > I made some more tests trying to boot the 2.6.26 kernel with various > > options (I have 14MB ST-RAM and 64MB Fast-Ram, and using one of the > > initrd.gz ramdisks). > > > > -s seems mandatory (load kernel in st-ram), but booting is very slow > > (takes several minutes to reach rootfs mount). It should work > > when loading kernel in Fast-Ram and should be much faster. Does the > > kernel copy itself to FastRam before executing? > > Nope, the kernel does not relocate itself after loading. I think I do also > use > -s but booting is nowhere near as slow. (Not using a compressed ramdisk, > though). > > What does the boot spend most of the time on? It's not slow on a precise step, it's simply feeling slow overall. For me it's not a surprise at all if the whole kernel runs from ST-RAM. I was able to install the Etch image from http://wiki.aranym.org/afs/setup_linux that was originally setup for usage in Aranym, on one of my Falcon partitions; and run the 2.6.26 kernel using it. If I remove the '-s' flag with the exact same setup, I hear the hard disk spinning really fast loading all stuff, but (1) I only get a black screen (2) it resets after a while. Fixing the kernel to run it from FastRam seems top priority for me, to have it run at full speed. -- Patrice Mandin WWW: http://pmandin.atari.org/ Programmeur Linux, Atari Spécialité: Développement, jeux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
