LILO: How to adding Compact speed boot up.

asipper · 12-10-2011, 08:04 PM

For no reason I was looking through arch's wiki page on lilo and it said to add compact to /etc/lilo.conf. I did and it takes the .......... away when loading the bzImage ( I think) It sped my slack boot by at least 10 seconds. But why does it speed up loading the bzImage

H_TeXMeX_H · 12-11-2011, 04:18 AM

Code:

       compact
              Tries to merge read requests for adjacent sectors into a  single
              read  request.  This drastically reduces load time and keeps the
              map file smaller. Using `compact' is especially recommended when
              booting using a map file on a floppy disk.

So, basically, it changes the way that lilo loads the kernel into RAM. I think it should be the default option. Another option is to use grub.