Re: Linux/ix86 booting process and BIOS

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Strohm Thomas wrote :
> The following steps happen when booting:
> (1) BIOS executes
> (2) LILO loads vmlinuz and gunzips it
> (3) the kernel does initializations (I start counting when entering
> start_kernel())
> (4) init executes /etc/rc <rl> (rl=2)
>
>
> On a PII/350 system with 128MB of memory and running 2.2.4 (SuSE 6.2,
> non-SCSI), the
> measured times are: (1) 8s, (2) 1s, (3) 4s, (4) app. 25s.

Lucky you !
(1) is 15 secs on my system(*), I mean what the fsck is it doing ????

It was <1 sec on C64 :-)
and even an amiga 2000 booted in about 1 sec from an add-on SCSI card !
( measured from RESET till the booting begun )

* - I have an Abit BH6 board with 64MB ram , Celeron 300A @ 450/100 MHz

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