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Wrong goal

Posted Jul 14, 2009 21:10 UTC (Tue) by dmk (subscriber, #50141)
In reply to: Wrong goal by BrucePerens
Parent article: MontaVista Achieves Ultra-Fast One Second Linux Boot Time in Embedded Industrial Applications

of course this is with some special purpose embedded hardware. but why is my laptop taking 20 seconds to grub? why? why? why?

is there some comprehensive overview of bios-boot-time for laptops?


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Wrong goal

Posted Jul 15, 2009 0:14 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

> of course this is with some special purpose embedded hardware. but why is my laptop taking 20 seconds to grub? why? why? why?

'cause BIOS is teh suxor.

Blame it on technical requirements needed to be compatible with Windows XP.

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