Guys, Just wanted to have your estimate about startup times for EPIA-M mobo. ATM it takes about 9 secs to go to payload. 7 secs to go to splash. Which seems to be really high values. Does anyone can say what it would be if everything is "perfect" ? How much time at minimum the BIOS can take assuming RAM, VGA and PCI initialized properly ?
If the answer would be 4 secs in ideal case, I'll invest some time to tighten it up... If 9 secs is a minimum, then...
Any suggestions ? Dmitry/
Guys, Just wanted to have your estimate about startup times for EPIA-M mobo. ATM it takes about 9 secs to go to payload.
Hmm. I'm seeing about 5 seconds from power on until I get an etherboot message. This is on an EPIA MEII 6000. I don't have the vga bios in there, would that account for the difference?
Then etherboot prints out: Analyzing Media type,this will take several seconds........OK
It doesn't actually take very long, but it bothers me anyway :-)
It's about 18-20 seconds until the kernel starts all the way up and complains about my lack of a valid NFS root.
Larry
On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Dmitry Borisov wrote:
ATM it takes about 9 secs to go to payload.
yikes!
I think it is time to revive Ollie's serial post + tsc, which for some reason went away.
That's nuts.
7 secs to go to splash. Which seems to be really high values. Does anyone can say what it would be if everything is "perfect" ?
1 second to go to payload is pretty good. 9 seconds is really odd.
we need to start tracing timing again.
ron
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