On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, yfede wrote: > I noticed that the majority of time is taken by IDE hardware to be probed.
yes, and this time is required by the IDE standard. > This could be done by replacing BIOS firmware with a simpler one that > only loads kernel in ram and starts it... kinda of LILO on ROM, if you > got what I mean. Does something like that exist? uh, what list is this again? Oh yea, the one where we did this already, starting 4 years ago. ron _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

