Improving the Fedora boot experience

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 11.03.13 15:47, Adam Williamson (awilliam at redhat.com) wrote:

> On 11/03/13 01:20 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> >
> >Yikes. On a modern system the BIOS POST finishes within 500ms, and
> 
> While we're trading anecdata, mine takes at least 10 seconds, and
> often appears to run twice for absolutely no good reason.

Get any Windows 8 certified HW and you'll get POST < 2s, because that's
required for the logo certification. In real life you even get much
better than that. For example Samsung Ultrabooks (the infamous ones) are
much faster and achieve ~500ms for POST.

See "Windows 8 System Requirements", section
"System.Fundamentals.Firmware.UEFIPostTime":

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/hh748188.aspx

Lennart

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