Dave Miner wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: >> As a point of comparison, booting from a Live CD with the 2008.11 >> (non-global) USB image on the same system took: >> >> 1m 57s after selecting the boot option from GRUB menu to see SunOS banner >> 10s before I got a language prompt >> 30s before the desktop fully loaded >> >> So, the initial grub loading process is pretty slow, but the rest of >> it is a lot faster than a USB image of build 110. >> > > Interesting. The changes for 6440 will greatly reduce the size of the > initial ramdisk load so you should see significant improvement, but I'm > still puzzled why it got so much worse. One potential culprit is the > update to grub-0.97, which came in build 103. Might be worth it to > build up some hacked USB images with the old 0.95 stage 2 and see if > that makes the difference.
To be clear, I was booting the 2008.11 USB non-global image from a USB stick (I wasn't booting from a Live CD). The interesting quirk here for me is that the time from grub boot menu selection to SunOS banner from *an actual CD* is about 30 seconds while the time for a USB image is about 2 minutes. Is a CD drive that much faster at transferring the initial ramdisk than a USB stick? Cheers, -- Shawn Walker
