Arjan van de Ven wrote, on 2008-11-29 02:06: > Vlad wrote: >> Hi, >> >> In a recent demonstration of how to boot Linux in 5 seconds [1], >> PowerTOP developers did not use GRUB2, even though GRUB2 is a >> necessary component of any production and consumer Linux system or >> multi-boot environment. As I see it, the greatest disadvantage of >> GRUB2 is that it needlessly wastes the time in which it gives the >> user the chance to stall the boot sequence in order to make changes >> to the boot settings. Of course, having this option available is a >> necesity in case the user's hardware requires tweaking the >> parameters passed to the kernel. However, GRUB2 should be loading >> the default kernel during this time, instead of deferring this >> IO-bound task to after the timeout has elapsed. > > we used grub 1. >> Since popular Linux distros typically display the GRUB2 intro >> message for 30 seconds, > > I'm not aware of mainstream distributions using grub2 yet. Also, I'm > not aware of any distro using 30 seconds as timeout, the longest I've > seen is 5 seconds.
Debian GNU/Linux offers grub2 as an option on installation. Arthur. _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
