Most BIOSes have a fast boot/less tests option. Having said that, I recently took out a scsi burner because the boot time was just doing my head in.
The answer is to not shutdown, but this is not very ecological. Matt -----Original Message----- From: Crispin Wellington [mailto:crispin@;aeonline.net] Sent: Sunday, 27 October 2002 10:01 PM To: Debian Users Subject: Re: Speed On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 16:33, nate wrote: > C. Brewer said: > > > Debian 3.0= 47secs > > not sure what kinda computer you have but i don't even get to my LILO > prompt for at least 30 seconds from power on. Some motherboards are reprehensible for the bios startup time. When are we going to demand faster boots from bios vendors? Whatever. Being the same machine, this time would be the same on all three values. Crispin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
