Shawn Walker wrote: > 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? >
No, my experience is that the CD is much slower than USB on the various systems I've used. I really think there's something odd going on with your system. Dave > Cheers,
