speeding up bios POST

[ted leslie]

that does sound unusually long,
if you want really fast boot,
i just bought a intel flash 32GB solid state drive,
with the insanely small "seek time",
it max's out the sata3 bus for reads, and almost for writes,
it speed up the kernel boot up by say only 2X
but the gnome desktop bootup!! it went from
(with a normal hard drive) to seeing the different
modules of gnome (icons) come up, then go to desktop,
to , do fast you cant see the different modules, to
basically 1 second to the desk top.
Generally it speed up everything by a solid 2-3 times,
but anything that is many file opening at once,
say a big app going after much .so's/dll
wow!  you can easily see 20X speed up.
a bit pricy at 400$ for 32GB, but it will come down soon enough.
I am going to raid-0 (or 50-60) 6-8 or so of these together to max out a
3ware pciE card, get hopefully about 1.5GB/second transfer,
be nice to tranfer a DVD worth of data in 3 seconds!!
The way flash drives are going (i.e. platter HD's are basically dead now),
this will probably be normal speeds (for disk access) for people in 3-4 years. 

-tl

On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:57:03 -0400
Matt Price <matt.price-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> 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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