speeding up bios POST

[Matt Price]

On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 20:39 -0500, teddymills wrote:
> 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
> 
on your advice, disabled unused IDE and changed boot sequence so cdrom
is not called first.  also set the pug and play o/s to 'yes', which i'd
never done before.  these brought the 0-to-grub time down to about 8
seconds, which isn't really all that bad.  still wish i could  do better
though!

thx,
matt



> 
> 
> 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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