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BIOS 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 c
by jlgreco 13y ago
BIOS 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...