Re: Handling multiple cores by GRUB

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 05:44:03PM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> 2009/10/14 Robert Millan <address@hidden>:
> > But I don't think this would be desireable except in very specific 
> > situations,
> > and I'm not sure which ones.  Perhaps loading a compressed file would be an
> > example (so that uncompression and disk poll can be done in parallel).
> >
> 
> Not specifically related, but why is grub reading a file from a USB
> stick so slow when compared with say reading the HD.
> I mean slow, it is about 20 times slower here.

Are you using our own driver, or the BIOS' one?

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