faster boot -- radical solutions?

[John Van Ostrand]

On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 10:46 -0400, Matt Price wrote:
> Ho folks,
> 
>  some time ago I remember seeing a story about a Japanese computer scientist
> who had gotten linux boot times down to somehting very short -- 10 or 20
> seconds I think, on a medium-range machine.  So today I was trying to ifnd
> that article again, and couldn'treally; however I did noticel ots of new
> initiativesi n this direction, e.g.:

There was the Linux BIOS project (http://www.linuxbios.org) That didn't
do anything for system startup but it did avoid the delays in BIOS
startup.
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