Linux booted in one second

[Computer Hope Admin]

Boot times have shortened to around 30 seconds with Windows 7, but now there's some Linux jockeys who have figured out how to cold boot a computer from nothing to operational status in one second. Yes, it's a tech demo, and they're booting an embedded system with minimal drivers, so it's not a full Windows-like environment. But this proves that short boot times are indeed possible.

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[BC_Programmer]

but of course! DOS 3.11 boots almost instantly, too.

[patio]

DOS 3.11....or Windows ? ?

[BC_Programmer]

both

although DOS 3.11 boots faster. on a 386 it really flies!

[Wefro_froyas]

30 seconds? I'm running windows Xp service pack 2 and it boots in about 10 - 15 seconds

[michaewlewis]

BeOS is pretty quick too. it can boot a 1ghz/512mb pc in less than 20 seconds, depending on how long post takes.
My vista box takes about 20 seconds to boot after post. Post takes about 1 1/2 minutes. I think somethings screwed up in my bios.

[patio]

Good to see ya back Wefro...

[Kurtiskain]

BeOS is pretty quick too. it can boot a 1ghz/512mb pc in less than 20 seconds, depending on how long post takes.
My vista box takes about 20 seconds to boot after post. Post takes about 1 1/2 minutes. I think somethings screwed up in my bios.

This sounds like it could be a dying hard drive, you have alot of bios addons, for instance a RAID PCI card or similar, or you have quick boot turned off in the BIOS. If you have quick boot turned off, it will test the RAM more slowly, several times at POST.

[michaewlewis]

This sounds like it could be a dying hard drive, you have alot of bios addons, for instance a RAID PCI card or similar, or you have quick boot turned off in the BIOS. If you have quick boot turned off, it will test the RAM more slowly, several times at POST.

Ya, I've looked at just about everything in the bios and haven't found anything glaring. I don't think I have any bios addons. I've honestly never heard of them. I hadn't thought about it being a hard drive, though, because I've got a raid 1 array and an extra drive for backups. I guess I could yank the cables from the drives and see how long it takes to post..... thanks for the tips.

[Quantos]

I don't care until they can do this 'typically', that means repeated and with full functionality. 

I can talk to aliens with linux, who cares though....