Vlad wrote: > Hi, > > In a recent demonstration of how to boot Linux in 5 seconds [1], PowerTOP > developers did not use GRUB2, even though GRUB2 is a necessary component of > any production and consumer Linux system or multi-boot environment. As I see > it, the greatest disadvantage of GRUB2 is that it needlessly wastes the time > in which it gives the user the chance to stall the boot sequence in order to > make changes to the boot settings. Of course, having this option available is > a necesity in case the user's hardware requires tweaking the parameters > passed to the kernel. However, GRUB2 should be loading the default kernel > during this time, instead of deferring this IO-bound task to after the > timeout has elapsed.
we used grub 1. > > Since popular Linux distros typically display the GRUB2 intro message for 30 > seconds, I'm not aware of mainstream distributions using grub2 yet. Also, I'm not aware of any distro using 30 seconds as timeout, the longest I've seen is 5 seconds. _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
