On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 09:55 +0200, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
Am 13.06.2012 07:54, schrieb Per Jessen:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
I have seen some server level PCs taking 15 minutes, measured with a wall clock, to boot from a usb stick (text mode). That same computer booted from CD to live under two minutes to a graphics system.
Carlos, apart from a "server level personal computer" being a bit of an odd thing :-), that was surely a hardware issue. Anything I've recently booted from USB definitely completed faster than from CD.
I think it is actually BIOS dependant -- I have seen many, even recent BIOSes taking ages to load kernel and initrd from USB stick (5 minutes wall clock) and loading the same kernel and initrd quickly from a CD.
Once the linux kernel takes over, this is mostly moot, but until then...
At work we had a simular problem. We made a bootable stick with a thin-client. However, some people complaint that they couldn't boot from USB. (Apple, locked-bios, old-bios, no-brains, etc) Initially people wanted to have the whole content of the stick on a cdrom, but we choose different: Specially for them we made a bootable (syslinux) cdrom only containing boot-stuf. everything else was kept on the stick. hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org