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I have an pretty standard Arch Linux installation with an SSD and my boot time is 1.5 seconds. My MacBook with an SSD takes nearly a minute.
by nilved 13y ago
I have an pretty standard Arch Linux installation with an SSD and my boot time is 1.5 seconds. My MacBook with an SSD takes nearly a minute.
- dman 13y agoDoes that exclude bios init time?
- dmix 13y agoNo it doubt it. I also ran Arch Linux on a Macbook Air 2012 w/ ssd and the bios init time was (way) longer than the Arch linux boot.
- jlgreco 13y agoBIOS init time on my chromebook pixel is absolutely a killer. The "OS verification is turned off" screen appears instantly, but then I have to manually press ctrl-l to make seabios start loading, and seabios isn't particularly snappy about loading then picking the harddrive so grub can kick off. That whole process takes maybe 4 seconds which I think is a bit absurd. My solution of course is to just suspend/hibernate instead of powering down, but it is a little disappointing that I don't get to play the "fast boot" game.
- dman 13y agoYes if you do unsafe things you can be fast. There is a hilarious open issue that google refuses to fix - critical information required to boot is written to a part that is battery backed. So if you have your pixel in developer mode, and have installed linux on it, just close the screen and and let your battery drain to zero - your pixel will become non bootable. All of this because storing this information in TPM where it would be persistent would "slow" down the boot. Speaking from experience - my pixel has lost data three times because of this.
- jlgreco 13y agoHuuh, that sounds pretty shit, I'll have to increase the frequency of my backups... Do you have a link to that issue handy?
- dman 13y agoStuck at work right now so google+ is out of reach. Will update this message later at night with the relevant links.
- dman 13y agoHere you go - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/chromebook-central/zl9UZd4QvJ0/zER63daiHrIJ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/chromebook-central/zl9... https://plus.google.com/u/0/117057264318218846563/posts/hnVnjpF53zY https://plus.google.com/u/0/117057264318218846563/posts/hnVn... https://plus.google.com/111049168280159033135/posts/4nkSEmGoVF4 https://plus.google.com/111049168280159033135/posts/4nkSEmGo...
- grecy 13y agoI suggest something is wrong with your MacBook. My 2012 MBA with an SSD and 8GB of RAM cold boots to the desktop in ~8 seconds. (It was ~6 when I bought it..) I'm hoping a clean install of 10.9 will speed it up again a bit.
- nilved 13y agoI suspect it's because I use FileVault, but I use full-disk encryption via LUKS on Arch as well.
- outworlder 13y agoI have not noticed a speed difference after enabling filevault. I have not measured either. But the OSX boot time is still measured in seconds with the SSD.
- ushi 13y agoStartup finished in 1.267s (kernel) + 1.167s (userspace) = 2.434s Booting to a full featured Gnome. NetworkManager is the showstopper...