Initially noticed with 4RC Live ISOs, much slower than Classic ISOs They load very slowly, using USB 1 seemingly rather than USB 2. The kernel loads at roughly 1% per second. lspcidrake attached Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce:
Created attachment 4846 [details] lspcidrake.txt taken in mga3 I'll attach one later from mga4, in case they are different.
lewis has also been reporting slow live isos so adding him in CC lewis could you attach the lspcidrake.txt from lspcidrake -v > lspcidrake.txt Thanks
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Would oblige if I could, but it is water under the bridge now. I currently only 'live' install 64-bit from USB stick, and do not recall anything excessive lately. If I complained, it was probably re 32-bit Gnome Live DVD from actual DVD; but the issue was clouded by doubtful ISOs. I do not do that any more, as the installed result was unuseable on the box in question. Sorry.
kernel loading slowness really is BIOS slowness...
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I have updated the bios (to a 2010 one) since the betas which I am inclined to blame. It's an order of magnitude slower loading live isos than classic isos though.
Created attachment 4859 [details] journal.txt from live session kde livecd
Created attachment 4860 [details] dmesg.txt from live session kde livecd I'll download mga3 livecd, or maybe even mint/ubuntu and try those next. If theyre similar then it's obviously a bios regression and not a mageia regression.
ok, so it sees a lot as usb1. and I see some ubuntu and fedora users have seen the same. is bios usb options set to run ports at usb2 speed ? check that the ports are configured for "hi speed" and not "full speed" or "low speed" the first one is 480Mbit, the second 12Mbit, and the third 1,5Mbit lsusb -t will report current speed it runs at. if none of the above helps, try to boot with: rd.blacklist=uhci-hcd
Created attachment 4861 [details] fedjournal.txt from a fedora 20 live iso Mga3 livecd was similar, I double checked bios settings and there are just enable/disable usb and enable/disable legacy usb with no speed settings. Attached is the journal taken from live session of a fedora 20 iso (which, incidentally, booted to a US locale) I also grabbed dmesg there. I'll try again with rc.blacklist but unless anything shows up here we should probably write it off as a bad bios.
Created attachment 4862 [details] feddmesg.txt
rd.blacklist=uhci.hcd doesn't seem to make a difference. I'm happy if you want to close this as a bios regression
uhci-hcd i mean
If it helps... Just tried & installed both 64-bit Gnome & KDE Live DVDs Final 2nd round from USB stick. Live, both reached 1st (language) dialogue in ~2m, and went from the last (keyboard) to visible desktop in ~1m. Is this normal or excessive? I think normal.
closing as a bios issue
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => FIXED