Slow booting from live DVD
by aikempshall from LinuxQuestions.org on (#54V5B)
Having to make a live CD for a friend to use as a recovery disk.
So downloaded kubuntu 20.04 and wrote to DVD using K3B, then tested on my own machine -
I then tried kubuntu 20.04 in VirtualBox using my DVD reader. It took 4m18s to get to the desktop. Once I was in it was quite responsive.
I then tried kubuntu 20.04 in VirtualBox using the downloaded iso. It took 50s to get to the desktop. Quite reasonable I thought.
The system on the box I'm using is Slackware 14.2.
It's been a long time since I used the DVD reader to boot up a Linux live DVD, but I can't remember it taking this long to boot up and do some real work.
Is my memory playing tricks with me and all those years ago it really did take a long time to book a live DVD. Or have I got some tweaks to do to enable faster booting from a DVD?
Alex
So downloaded kubuntu 20.04 and wrote to DVD using K3B, then tested on my own machine -
- kubuntu 20.04 took about 5 minutes before it got to the desktop. Once it was in it was quite responsive.
- then did the same with Slackware Current that took over 6 minutes before it got to the desktop.
I then tried kubuntu 20.04 in VirtualBox using my DVD reader. It took 4m18s to get to the desktop. Once I was in it was quite responsive.
I then tried kubuntu 20.04 in VirtualBox using the downloaded iso. It took 50s to get to the desktop. Quite reasonable I thought.
The system on the box I'm using is Slackware 14.2.
It's been a long time since I used the DVD reader to boot up a Linux live DVD, but I can't remember it taking this long to boot up and do some real work.
Is my memory playing tricks with me and all those years ago it really did take a long time to book a live DVD. Or have I got some tweaks to do to enable faster booting from a DVD?
Alex