On Tuesday 07 January 2003 10:22 am, zentara wrote:
On Tue, 07 Jan 2003 13:57:24 -0200 Adagilson B B da Silva
wrote: No, my brother, when I restart Windows it doesn't recount memory because it was done once before while starting up the pc. [...] You are not talking about rebooting, you are talking about "restarting Windows", which is different. I think I know what you are talking about, when Windows asks "Do you want to restart Windows now?" and then the GUI goes black, and then comes back.
And to top it off, in order for windows to do this, you have to do "something special" -- hold down the "shift" key when clicking the "OK" button to restart windows [at least, from the "start/shutdown" menu item/dialog -- I've seen this behaviour in a few "installation" type programs but not very often] without the "shift-click", "restarting windows" does a "warmboot" [resets the CPU, but doesn't do some of the POST items, of which the most notable is the "BIOS memory test"]
Windows never really gives up control of the machine when you do this, it just shuts down far enough that it can reload new drivers, then restarts the GUI.
A "close equivalent" for linux would be "log in as a new user" -- this essentially restarts the X server, but doesn't actually reboot the machine. Windows has this also -- labelled as "log off <username>" in the start menu [rarely used in practice, I've found] but functionally the same [ok, slightly worse than restarting X as many "user level" device drivers are included in the "graphical" startup portion of windows -- things that linux relegates to "not part of X"... :) ]
Maybe in linux you can do it by changing from runlevel 5 to runlevel 1, then back to runlevel 5 ?
I still have to ask, however, just how long does it take to "check NVram" on his system and why is this a concern? I don't want to reboot my system "right now" just to find out how long it takes, but shortly I will be rebooting my system [need to do some video editing, and I don't have cinelerra working with my camera yet, so I *have* to use Adobe premiere...] I'll try to keep an eye out for "how long" this step takes during boot...