Linux Startup Times [PMX:#]

[ron minnich]

On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, yfede wrote:

> I noticed that the majority of time is taken by IDE hardware to be probed.

yes, and this time is required by the IDE standard. 

> This could be done by replacing BIOS firmware with a simpler one that
> only loads kernel in ram and starts it... kinda of LILO on ROM, if you
> got what I mean. Does something like that exist?


uh, what list is this again? Oh yea, the one where we did this already, 
starting 4 years ago. 

ron