Re: [Freedos-user] Long boot delay at "InitDisk"

[Luchezar G. <lu...@co...>]

> the bootup speed with some newer PC's and later kernels (2032 or later?) 
> is very slow - the copyright is shown and InitDisk is shown for as much 
> as 30 seconds.

A 30 second delay at the "InitDisk" stage suggests that your hard disks 
don't have FAT filesystems or are not detected by BIOS, or the partition 
tables are unreadable by the kernel for some reason.