From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 14 18:38:53 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (unknown [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83C8B106566C for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:38:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dieterbsd@engineer.com) Received: from mailout-us.gmx.com (mailout-us.gmx.com [74.208.5.67]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2984E8FC0A for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:38:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 24898 invoked by uid 0); 14 Jun 2012 18:38:52 -0000 Received: from 67.206.184.254 by rms-us003.v300.gmx.net with HTTP Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:38:49 -0400 From: "Dieter BSD" Message-ID: <20120614183850.22700@gmx.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Authenticated: #74169980 X-Flags: 0001 X-Mailer: GMX.com Web Mailer x-registered: 0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-GMX-UID: 7Uqob7pp3zOlNR3dAHAhxcp+IGRvb4Br Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Times X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:38:53 -0000 Brandon writes: > Booting into Ubuntu minimal or my own custom Linux distro, > literally takes 0.5-2 seconds to boot up to shell 0.5-2 seconds from power-on to a shell prompt?  How do you get through the firmware that fast, much less firmware plus an OS? Which reminds me, back when I was triple-booting Free, Net, and penguinix, I noticed that when rebooting, penguinix didn't go through all the firmware stuff like the BSDs do.  That is one way to save a lot of time, at least for reboots.