<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Charles Forsyth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:charles.forsyth@gmail.com" target="_blank">charles.forsyth@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 April 2013 19:18, Mike Cloaked <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike.cloaked@gmail.com" target="_blank">mike.cloaked@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">When [UEFI] works it is fantastic -</blockquote></div><br>Ah. Now I'm interested: in what way? My only contact with it so far has been to switch it off (on my Samsung, so I can dual-boot), and on a new</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">i5 motherboard that had it as an option, but I didn't need anything from it, so again I switched it off.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>Well - I only have experience with my home-build machine based on a DQ77KB motherboard (Intel) with Ivybridge I3 CPU and Crucial mSATA SSD for the system drive, plus Crucial M4 SSD for the user areas.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>The boot goes fast to the rEFInd boot screen (in a second or so (with a set of icons to boot from on a lovely graphical pretty screen in nice colour - my arch icon is a nice Tux penguin on that screen - and that is selected as the default boot option with a short timeout before it boots. other choices are different icons on that initial screen and are either uefi shell binaries or other linux kernels in the /boot directory. rEFInd boots kernels directly if they are compiled with the UEFI stuff in. It is hard to know which of the hardware or boot or systemd startup system contributes most to the fast boot time - but before adding in server daemons it booted in 2.7 seconds to the login screen (that is according to systemd-analyse since this system uses systemd and not the old init system). Once I had added in postscript, dovecot, chrony, dhcpd and dns servers (nsd and unbound) plus iptables then the boot time went up to 9.7 seconds!</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>However I have never before had a machine that booted so fast with a pretty graphical boot screen (grub2 with plymouth is not anywhere as aesthetically pleasing to see!) Previously my fastest boot time was about 17 seconds with a more conventional BIOS/MBR system with spinning disks. </div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Anyway that is my system where everything was designed towards optimising the boot process from the outset when I put the hardware together!</div><div style><br></div><div style>Hope that may help?</div>
<div style><br></div><div> </div></div>-- <br>mike c
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