On Tuesday 02 May 2006 13:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 15:18 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > <quote who="Kevin Saenz"> > > > > > Just have a question is there a way to boot linux without using a > > > bootloader. > > > > So, in much the same way as you can copy a kernel to a floppy and it > > 'just boots', I'm sure there is some way of doing a similar thing from > > your hard drive. But it's relatively dangerous, and I'm sure it will > > involve a bunch of annoying restrictions in what you can do.
For one of my embedded projects where boot time was an issue, I used grub, no wait, 2.6, no modules and from power-on till all running was a smidge under 5 secs on a 533 VIA eden with flash and 32M. I don't think the boot-loader contributed more than 10s ms James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
