Re: are there problems with this email? - what is a disc on chip? - beginner's question

[Andrew Ip]

> The point is that I want linuxbios to powerup my living-room computer in
> the shortest possible time: it is a satellite digital videorecorder (and
> it has a big hard disk for this reason) which by now takes far too much
> time to powerup (43seconds, many taken by the BIOS). How much time
> should I expect for a 'local disk' init 1 linuxbios boot?

It takes about 1 sec from power up to loading kernel from localdisk.  With CF 
card, you don't even worry about harddisk spin-up.  To speed up everything, you
can even remove ide driver which takes about couple sec to load, from the 
kernel.  Then, mount your rootfs as ramdisk.  It can be done by mkelfImage.
However, you can't modify any data with this config.  I guess it is ok for vdr.

-Andrew