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2015 Oct 10
0
Measuring boot time
...which is why there is slow down according to what you said).
I'm guessing the part about enabling A20 is that some old hardware
didn't initialize the keyboard properly and this was done to allow
some input.
> Can you point me out to where it is done?
> I think it may be the function bios_pollchar in core/conio.c but I'm not sure.
If I recall, it's in the Linux kernel loader or some loader common
code or it's just before the "boot:" prompt appears. It's been a
while since I looked and don't immediately recall where.
> If it is OK I have another question.
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2015 Oct 05
3
Measuring boot time
Hi
Some time ago I wrote this mailing list about some extra time that it takes for my system to boot and I don't know where it came from.I'm using a custom BIOS which loads at 1 second and now I've found out that it takes for the bootloader and OS an extra 1 second to load when keyboard is disconnected.I got from the BIOS engineer the following explanation and steps to take:
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