On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 05:44:03PM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > 2009/10/14 Robert Millan <r...@aybabtu.com>: > > But I don't think this would be desireable except in very specific > > situations, > > and I'm not sure which ones. Perhaps loading a compressed file would be an > > example (so that uncompression and disk poll can be done in parallel). > > > > Not specifically related, but why is grub reading a file from a USB > stick so slow when compared with say reading the HD. > I mean slow, it is about 20 times slower here.
Are you using our own driver, or the BIOS' one? -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel