> 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?
Yes, that's possible. Esp. older systems seem to use USB 1.x transfers only, when booting from an USB storage device. Newer systems have "USB 2.0 High-Speed Boot" support and are able to boot *much* faster from USB storage devices. See also this bug: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=4180 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
