5 Nov
2007
5 Nov
'07
3:31 p.m.
On 5 Nov 2007 at 16:02, woodelf wrote:
How many people even see the BIOS any more?
All I know it takes about 2 minutes to boot a modern(ish)
PC. :(
It does? I'm up and running in less than a minute on a P4. But the
BIOS has nothing to do with most of that time. Both Windoze and
Linux shift into 32-bit protected mode pretty quickly when loading.
By that time, the drivers have loaded and the BIOS is out of the
picture at that point.
What does slow down loading is the need to load drivers after boot,
which then go through enumeration and resource mapping all over
again.
So I don't know why your systems load so slowly.
Cheers,
Chuck