> My impression is that the time during kernel initialization is either
> spent spinning up disks or in a million device probes and things going
> on behind the scenes. I haven't had a chance to look farther though.
IDE is less of a problem normally. In the LinuxBIOS case it may become
measurable, and the initial drive spinup has to occur before the firmware
responds. (If I understand it rightly most of the drive firmware is on
the disk). For the spin up/down the IDE folks put it in the drives which
makes life much simpler
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