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Duffy: Improving the Fedora boot experienceDuffy: Improving the Fedora boot experiencePosted Mar 14, 2013 13:46 UTC (Thu) by nye (guest, #51576)In reply to: Duffy: Improving the Fedora boot experience by pjones Parent article: Duffy: Improving the Fedora boot experience
>So in effect, this is a BIOS limitation.
I wish I still had enough idealism to be surprised :(.
Does EFI help here, or just add an additional set of possible bugs that need to be worked around?
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Duffy: Improving the Fedora boot experience Posted Mar 14, 2013 14:19 UTC (Thu) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]
EFI does, in fact, help here! There's an entire section of the spec dedicated to this topic. Unfortunately, Microsoft's requirements for boot speed mean that most devices won't initialise USB in the firmware unless an application explicitly attempts to read a key, and doing that means adding a couple of seconds to boot time.
Duffy: Improving the Fedora boot experience Posted Mar 14, 2013 15:59 UTC (Thu) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]
Sooo... swings and roundabouts then really.
Regardless, it's interesting to know, thanks.
Duffy: Improving the Fedora boot experience Posted Mar 14, 2013 14:33 UTC (Thu) by tcourbon (subscriber, #60669) [Link]
The fact you ask if EFI help is proof you still have idealism.
Rejoice !
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