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It was said to boot in 5s twenty years ago... The hardware compatibility list shows a promising number of machines ( http://www.menuetos.net/hwc.txt http://www

by mdp2021 3y ago

It was said to boot in 5s twenty years ago... The hardware compatibility list shows a promising number of machines ( http://www.menuetos.net/hwc.txt http://www.menuetos.net/hwc.txt ). If you have a spare one, you could try and report. There is a chance that you will achieve a very fast boot time. -- AROS (Amiga) could reboot in ~7s, ~15yrs ago. And you can do more than you can with MenuetOS. Again, today you will probably break that record. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yNIuNnBrWg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yNIuNnBrWg Edit: You can see here a recent AROS booting in 3s (it is not clear if it is bare metal though): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s_TfmF-_iE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s_TfmF-_iE

haolez 3y ago
It was even faster than that. I remember it being almost instantaneous. And you could even play Doom!
hotnfresh 3y ago
Last time I ran it, Lakka (a Linux disto for Retroach emulation appliances) booted in 5s or less on an RPi2, to a usable graphical menu, complete with particle effects or whatever if you have that stuff enabled.
- JPLeRouzic 3y ago
  on a 1.44MB floppy?
  - hotnfresh 3y ago
    Nah, but QNX could maybe do it still :-) 1.44 MB floppy read times might prevent sub-5-second boots to a GUI, though. I can’t really remember how fast things like that booted from a floppy, anymore.
brirec 3y ago
I’m pretty sure that 5s time 20 years ago was on a 1.44MB floppy, too. A real floppy! Not something emulated.
tuetuopay 3y ago
> You can see here a recent AROS booting in 3s (it is not clear if it is bare metal though): The virtualbox window is pretty clear to me :D
- mdp2021 3y ago
  Youngsters, bragging about their good eyes... ;) Anyway: I thought I have here a laptop I have to initialize, maybe I will install IcarOS on it as soon as I will have the time. So, we will see how it behaves on bare metal.
  - tuetuopay 3y ago
    Or just having overly-large screens. Or just going back to the video after reading the comment :p IcarOS seems like a fun thing to play with. Don't go too deep in the obscure OS rabbithole, it's indefinitely deep.
vidarh 3y ago
I used to have a setup where I'd boot the Linux-hosted version of AROS (so not nearly the same as booting from scratch certainly) straight into FrexxEd, and it started AROS + FrexxEd faster than my Emacs install started on the same box...

haolez 3y ago

It was even faster than that. I remember it being almost instantaneous. And you could even play Doom!

hotnfresh 3y ago

Last time I ran it, Lakka (a Linux disto for Retroach emulation appliances) booted in 5s or less on an RPi2, to a usable graphical menu, complete with particle effects or whatever if you have that stuff enabled.

JPLeRouzic 3y ago
on a 1.44MB floppy?
- hotnfresh 3y ago
  Nah, but QNX could maybe do it still :-) 1.44 MB floppy read times might prevent sub-5-second boots to a GUI, though. I can’t really remember how fast things like that booted from a floppy, anymore.

brirec 3y ago

I’m pretty sure that 5s time 20 years ago was on a 1.44MB floppy, too. A real floppy! Not something emulated.

tuetuopay 3y ago

> You can see here a recent AROS booting in 3s (it is not clear if it is bare metal though): The virtualbox window is pretty clear to me :D

mdp2021 3y ago
Youngsters, bragging about their good eyes... ;) Anyway: I thought I have here a laptop I have to initialize, maybe I will install IcarOS on it as soon as I will have the time. So, we will see how it behaves on bare metal.
- tuetuopay 3y ago
  Or just having overly-large screens. Or just going back to the video after reading the comment :p IcarOS seems like a fun thing to play with. Don't go too deep in the obscure OS rabbithole, it's indefinitely deep.

vidarh 3y ago

I used to have a setup where I'd boot the Linux-hosted version of AROS (so not nearly the same as booting from scratch certainly) straight into FrexxEd, and it started AROS + FrexxEd faster than my Emacs install started on the same box...