On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Tyson Sawyer wrote:
> Jun OKAJIMA wrote: > > Hello. > > > > I understand one of the biggest merits of LinuxBIOS is fast booting. > > > > Then, how fast it is? The top page of the Wiki says 3 sec, and "7/25/01: > > Dual Athlon update " issue says about 2 sec to > > boot a kernel. But this log shows it took 20 sec. > > The dominant factors are device driver init/probing and starting services. > Thus, boot time will be very dependent on system configuration. For the the 3 > second example I booted to a shell prompt using an initrd image, serial > console and not much else. Most real systems are going to take a fair bit > longer than that. > > The main difference w/linuxbios is that the kernel is loaded and running in > under 1 second vs. 10-50 seconds for a COTS bios. How fast things go once the > kernel is booted is up to you. > > Cheers! > Ty FAQ entry anyone? ron _______________________________________________ LinuxBIOS mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
