Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> General Software has announced the fastest BIOS boot time on record. The
> embedded system was clocked at 0.8 seconds from system power-on
> to transfer of control to LILO. This
> was on an Intel SOYO motherboard (440BX chipset) running a PIII
> 400. I think the quote of the article is:
> 'This Embedded BIOS quick-boot operation allows the device to
> restart and resume operations well
> within three seconds -- the maximum amount of downtime allowed
> per year for a device that must
> support "seven nines" or 99.99999 percent uptime.'
>
>
>
> Sorry for the formatting.
>
> Note it is "bios boot time" not "boot time". I think we're lots faster
> than 800 milliseconds!
Well I don't know about lots faster I don't have that kind of timer
precision. Timings on my dual-amd board from a cold start are close
to this, and that is a production board with ECC SDRAM that must be
zeroed. And that is without any serious optimization.
In a desktop type setup a real bottle neck for linuxBIOS boot speed is
the hard drive spin up time.
The interesting part is that it still takes them two more seconds to
bring up linux. On a setup like that I don't see why it takes them
that long.
Eric
