J?rgen Keil wrote: >> 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.
In this particular case, I verified that the device shows up as USB 2.0, and the dmesg logs indicate that it is using "high-speed transfers." This is a fairly new Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 (E8600?) system. Cheers, -Shawn
