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Date:      Wed, 01 Feb 2006 23:31:55 +0100
From:      des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        babkin@users.sf.net
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org, Scott Long <scottl@pooker.samsco.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile
Message-ID:  <86wtge4so4.fsf@xps.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <9170456.1138812837533.JavaMail.root@vms171.mailsrvcs.net> (Sergey Babkin's message of "Wed, 01 Feb 2006 10:53:57 -0600 (CST)")
References:  <9170456.1138812837533.JavaMail.root@vms171.mailsrvcs.net>

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Sergey Babkin <babkin@verizon.net> writes:
> A 30MB image gets loaded from CD in no time, but loading it from an
> USB flash drive took almost forever, easily half an hour or
> so. Maybe the BIOSes became more clever since then.

It should not take more than ~30 seconds, even with USB 1.x.  If it
takes half an hour, I suspect GRUB is doing something stupid like
reading it one sector at a time (requiring a switch to x86 mode for
every 512 bytes read)

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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