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cold boot?

cold boot?

Posted Jul 15, 2009 19:09 UTC (Wed) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: cold boot? by nye
Parent article: MontaVista Achieves Ultra-Fast One Second Linux Boot Time in Embedded Industrial Applications

you can configure most BIOS to not do autodetection of drives, that can drasticly speed up the system.


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cold boot?

Posted Jul 16, 2009 11:04 UTC (Thu) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]

Sadly this board has two SATA controllers, and one of them doesn't seem to be controllable via the main BIOS except to disable it, plus it seems that the only way to disable autodetection is to enable PATA emulation mode.

This is all the sort of thing that doesn't tend to get mentioned in motherboard reviews, which is why I'm interested in any resources that do check and give that information.

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