faster boot

[sime]

Hey Stryker,

how ya doing?

Leave it on mate it's a server based OS it's not supposed to be rebooted every 5 mins.

$MS on the other hand needs to boot fast as it goes down more often than a pair of trousers in a house of disrepute.

Constant rebooting of PC's only gives you chip creep anyway, shortening the life expectancy of the CPU.

Later

Sime

[jasonlane]

             

[insomnia]

quote:Originally posted by Stryker:
One of the most common arguments I hear among my friends against linux is: "It takes too long to bootup, Windows only takes 8 seconds".

8 Seconds??????????
...that's a world record.

[Stryker]

quote:Originally posted by insomnia:


8 Seconds??????????
...that's a world record.

i get windows up in 4 seconds...
  :confused:

[insomnia]

quote:Originally posted by Stryker:


i get windows up in 4 seconds...
   :confused:  

On PC ????
You must have a very special driver...


  :eek:    :eek:    :eek:

[Stryker]

I'll write out all my specs later if u want. I used all the default drivers, no updates or anything.

[insomnia]

quote:Originally posted by Stryker:
I'll write out all my specs later if u want. I used all the default drivers, no updates or anything.

That whould be very apriciated.         (but only tells half the story...)
...it takes me even more time to get all the right colours on my desk...
Accidently edited urs instead of mine, aw well
it booted in 4 seconds with the old hard drive, this 4 gig is slow.

[ August 02, 2003: Message edited by: Stryker ]

[ August 02, 2003: Message edited by: Stryker ]

[Stryker]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2744494986

you might have to do a little research on the mobo as most stuff is built in.

[Faust]

Linux boots up faster for me than Windows (XP) does...  Am I just different and strange or is anyone else like this?

[insomnia]

quote:Originally posted by Stryker:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2744494986

you might have to do a little research on the mobo as most stuff is built in.

Like you know, you have to boot your system in 2 steps.
Only the 2nd boots your os (MBR).
It takes you 2.3 sec. (or more) to boot your CPU (BIOS).
That leaves you 1.7 seconds to boot XP.
That's totally impossible, even if cleant your startup(msconfig) to the minimum.

PS: Booting to fast is also bad for your os.

[insomnia]

quote:Originally posted by Faust:
Linux boots up faster for me than Windows (XP) does...  Am I just different and strange or is anyone else like this?

In GRUB xp really does boot faster.
Still..., lilo is a lot faster.  

[Stryker]

quote:Originally posted by insomnia:


Like you know, you have to boot your system in 2 steps.
Only the 2nd boots your os (MBR).
It takes you 2.3 sec. (or more) to boot your CPU (BIOS).
That leaves you 1.7 seconds to boot XP.
That's totally impossible, even if cleant your startup(msconfig) to the minimum.

PS: Booting to fast is also bad for your os.

if my video card (nvidia) didn't show me that damn logo for so long, i could safely say the machine boots in 4 seconds or so. when I was saying 4 seconds I was meaning from the time it begins to load windows, to the time it's done.
1.7 seconds is very possible, with fast ram and hibernation. pc2700 256mb will boot fast, if i add the other 256mb stick it takes a little longer.

How is having a fast computer bad for it?

[insomnia]

lol
u never give up, do u?  :rolleyes:

[TheQuirk]

quote:Originally posted by insomnia:
lol
u never give up, do u?   :rolleyes:  

Answer the question. I'm interested, too.

[Unforgiven1]

on my machine...it takes about 15 seconds to be useable.  that's with a 2 gig processor, 400 mhz front side bus, and 30 gigs on info on an 80 gig hard drive.  I haven't tried linux yet...but with all the restarting, you do with windows..per day, that comes out to about 10 minutes worth of startup time