speeding up bios POST

teddymills teddy-5sHjOODPK7E at public.gmane.org
Mon Mar 30 01:39:57 UTC 2009


The only things I can think of are

1) disable unrequired devices in BIOS
2) boot directly from the hard drive in the BIOS boot sequence
3) choose (CS) cable select if using IDE devices



Matt Price wrote:
> hi folks,
> 
> i'm building a brand-new system, which i have to say is blazing fast --
> it's built around an asus p5n7a-vm MB, with a mid-level core2duo chip.
> I've installed ubuntu jaunty, which boots pretty quickly from grub --
> less than 20 seconds to gnome session -- but, to me astonishingly, it
> takes 15 seconds from power-on to GRUB.  this just seems crazy long, and
> I wonder what I can do to change it.  The BIOS is a pretty standard
> American Megatrends AMIBIOS, on which I've enabled 'quickboot' (that did
> seem to help a little) and disabled the express gate, which wasn't
> working anyway (i'm actually not even sure if the flash module is
> installed on the board, don't really knowmuch about express-gate).  but
> there are still long pauses I can't explain.  so i'm wondering:  is
> there a way to 'bootchart' your bios?  or are there standard methods for
> speeding it up?  
> 
> thanks as always,
> 
> matt
> 
> 
> ps, if someone can explain the expressgatething to me, i'd be grateful
> for that as well.  i'm wondering if i could just install my main OS on a
> CF card and boot directly into that without having to go through
> BIOS...  
> 


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