Excuse the ignorance, but i've got to ask ;o)...
You're not booting off of a floppy here are you ?
Everything after the point where your boot speeds up is when everything is
then resident in memory, hence on a floppy boot you will notice a
considerable speed up.
Martin.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Eric Mings
> Sent: 28 September 1999 14:04
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] Linux very slow to load
>
>
> I recently installed Mandrake 6 on a 450 pentium box and, although it
> runs well, it seems very slow to initially load up. I have redhat 6
> running on an old 486 and it loads MUCH faster. Here is the
> difference,
> it takes forever for the LILO prompt to come up after the basic bios
> settings display is finished. Sometimes I even have to
> restart to get it
> to come up at all. It then takes almost forever for the
> "loading linux"
> to finish. After that point all is normal in the startup
> process. Both
> of these aspects are very fast on my old 486 with redhat. Any
> ideas what
> could be causing this?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Eric Mings Ph.D.
>
