Fixed. Thanks Michał you're a star.
My boot/boot.cfg looked like the one here (debian.org/DebianYeeloong/HowTo/Install) Tirath --- On Mon, 30/7/12, Michał Masłowski <[email protected]> wrote: From: Michał Masłowski <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [gNewSense-users] Very Slow Boot To: "t s" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Date: Monday, 30 July, 2012, 19:57 > I have just installed Debian Squeeze with the Libre Linux kernel on my > Yeeloong 8089_B 8.9", but it takes 2 hours to boot. > > I used the instructions here: debian.org/DebianYeeloong/HowTo/Install. > > > How I installed > ================= > I booted from USB and started the installer. During the install I used > "guided partition". Then I deleted the primary partition / which was > 350MB and split it in two parts: 50MB primary partition for mounting > /boot, and 300MB extended partition for mounting / (root). > > When I installed the kernel I did an apt-cache search and installed > linux-image-2.6.32.90-libre-lemote. > After that I ran "apt-get update --fix-missing". At this point I saw > there was a newer kernel so I installed > linux-image-3.0.4-libre-lemote. > > Later, the instructions advised me to install GRUB. So I did that. Now > my start up menu has three options: > > 1 Boot with GRUB (grub.elf) > 2 Debian GNU with 2.6.38-libre-lemote > 3 Debian GNU with 2.6.38-libre-lemote single > > > Booting > ================= > Numbers 2 and 3 do not run. There is an error: > grub "error: you need to load linux first" > > Number 1 takes two hours to start! When it does load I see the Linux > Libre logo (Freedo penguin having a wash) and then it loads really > quickly. Linux from grub from PMON is slower than Linux from PMON (unsure if grub has significant advantages unless used as PMON-replacement directly). Adding initrd anywhere makes it even slower (especially if directly from old PMON). The metad kernels (libre-lemote) boot without initrd on YeeLoong in typical configurations (e.g. no disk encryption). This is my /boot/boot.cfg for Parabola: default 0 timeout 1 showmenu 1 title Parabola GNU/Linux-libre kernel (wd0,0)/vmlinuz-linux-libre args root=/dev/sda7 ro console=tty no_auto_cmd machtype=8.9 quiet resume=/dev/sda5 libata.force=1.00:80c (I have ext2 /boot as /dev/sda1, ext4 / as /dev/sda7 and swap as /dev/sda5.) It would be probably similar for Debian or gNewSense (with different kernel file name). _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
