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From: XBR4D75G%DDATHD21.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
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Subject: Re: Problems with version 1.5.3
Message-ID: <11885@nigel.udel.EDU>
Date: 22 Feb 90 19:58:56 GMT
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Sorry about my too quick problem report concearning the update of
version 1.5.0 to version 1.5.3.
This evening I found a solution to the startup problem:

The library routine exec.c version 1.5.3 does not work correctly
to start login in init.c.
If you just link exec.s from version 1.5.0 with the init.s version
1.5.3, you will get a normal running system 1.5.3.
There are no problems anymore when loading the rootfile system
from harddisk.
Disk speed has increased by a factor of 4 on my XT-clone with the new
version.
Running "time fsck /dev/hd2" on a 5 MB partition took only 35 sec real time,
compared to 2:08.0 minutes with version 1.5.0.

Hans-Juergen Knobloch