23 Oct
2014
23 Oct
'14
9:44 a.m.
When I'm talking about "hardware initialization", I'm talking about the huge part that appends *before* the kernel boots. For example, hard-based RAID. On my server, when I push the start button, bios start-up, do a lot of awesome things (irony), start the raid (sloowly), and then, after 5min, pop up grub, then Linux, etc. 5min for hard (from power-on to grub), 20sec for software (from grub to prompt)