current status of the Via EPIA

[Amaury Jacquot]

Hi,
I own a via EPIA mobo that I use for GPS/music playing in my car.
It currently takes about 50 seconds to boot into my program
http://sxpert.esitcom.org/projects/navsys/
I am wondering if linux bios would help me in accelerating the boot time
Sincerely

Amaury

[Andrew Ip]

Amaury,
> I own a via EPIA mobo that I use for GPS/music playing in my car.
> It currently takes about 50 seconds to boot into my program
> http://sxpert.esitcom.org/projects/navsys/
> I am wondering if linux bios would help me in accelerating the boot time

It takes about 1 sec to get to kernel loading.  Also, IRQ is fixed fixed.  If 
you don't need vga support, LinuxBIOS is a very good alternative.

-Andrew

[Ronald G. Minnich]

On 10 Jan 2003, Amaury Jacquot wrote:
> I own a via EPIA mobo that I use for GPS/music playing in my car. It
> currently takes about 50 seconds to boot into my program
> http://sxpert.esitcom.org/projects/navsys/ I am wondering if linux bios
> would help me in accelerating the boot time Sincerely

sure. I think cwlinux.com may soon be distributing linuxbios for these. 
But they do boot fast with linuxbios.

ron