Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Feb 2000 16:41:03 +0100 | From | David Balazic <> | Subject | 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
-- David Balazic
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