Re: Rapid re-boot (Windows or Linux)



On Jan 30, 1:28 pm, Tim Wescott <t...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I think your biggest time savings will be realized by changing to
linuxbios, going to Linux, and ruthlessly trimming the driver list

Or as Mr Linnix has pointed out, you can gain quite a bit of boot speed
simply by ruthlessly trimming the driver list and booting from a fast
medium like flash.

Err... refer to the section I requoted above. Given the size of this
system (half a gigabyte is a distinctly nontrivial chunk of data) I do
agree the OP's best focus would be to migrate to Linux and build the
slenderest possible kernel and startup scripts. The flash vs HDD issue
is (in my experience) not a big decider in the matter. It's been a
long time since my second book, and I don't have a copy here at hand,
but I did have a rather fast little distro booting off either a HDD or
a CF card - I think it was about 25 seconds (with a bunch of "extra"
drivers, at that) on a 233MHz Geode.

Depending on the BIOS in the machine, moving to linuxbios could
subtract ten seconds or more from the boot time; in the Geode case,
the BIOS splash screen and POST stuff was about 3-4 second.

you can arrange the boot process so that the really important things
come up first, you may be able to have the 'rest' of the boot happening

I don't believe this could be achieved under Windows.

Perhaps if you start by bringing up a really salacious splash screen,
that will distract the user long enough for the rest of the boot to
complete before they get over being stunned?

People get jaded very quickly; you would need to keep upping the ante.
And if a new guy comes along, who hasn't been acclimatized to the
system state, he might faint and injure himself.


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