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Splash screens and initramdisk

Splash screens and initramdisk

Posted Sep 23, 2008 17:14 UTC (Tue) by s0f4r (guest, #52284)
In reply to: Splash screens and initramdisk by michaeljt
Parent article: LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds

Not really. The overhead of actually loading the ramdisk using the slowest read method (BIOS) the system has available is extremely expensive. Once the kernel is booted we can use the fastest methods to read the disk.


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