OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/20064/Computer_Boot_Up_Process Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:37:14 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Excellent http://osnews.com/thread?323203 http://osnews.com/thread?323203 Excellent article. We need more articles like these that clearly and succinctly explain the boot loader and early kernel processes. There's a lot of information out there, but almost none of it explains it as clearly - most just give a high-level overview and are nearly useless. Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (TemporalBeing) Comments Flip, beep! http://osnews.com/thread?323229 http://osnews.com/thread?323229 Flip, beep. That's how my Apple II sounded. Hardware is, today, about a zillion times faster than it was in back in 1977. But now it's "flip... go make breakfast... beep... log in..."

Where is "flip, beep" today? Resume from suspend takes about 20 seconds on my mid-tower. Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sbergman27) Comments RE: Flip, beep! http://osnews.com/thread?323268 http://osnews.com/thread?323268
Flip, beep. That's how my Apple II sounded. Hardware is, today, about a zillion times faster than it was in back in 1977. But now it's "flip... go make breakfast... beep... log in..."

Where is "flip, beep" today? Resume from suspend takes about 20 seconds on my mid-tower.


I don't know what hardware you're running, but ArchLinux takes less than 20 seconds for a full boot on my laptop and XP boots even quicker.
And my laptop - though new 9 months ago - is only a mid-range spec. Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Laurence) Comments Not All http://osnews.com/thread?323287 http://osnews.com/thread?323287 Maybe rename it to "How (Intel, Bios based) Computer Boot" Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Phase Angle) Comments Read the authors other stuff, too http://osnews.com/thread?323295 http://osnews.com/thread?323295 I read all three parts and found them very interesting. Finally I have some understanding of all those specs on motherboards!

Also, read the other things the author has written, from what I saw, they are all interesting. Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (computerishcat) Comments Excellent articles http://osnews.com/thread?323305 http://osnews.com/thread?323305 Adding my voice to the praise for these articles. Very nice.

I'm still dreaming of the day when I'll be able to boot my PC OS as fast as my old Commodore 64.

Edit: I guess the only way to do that would be to burn the core OS into ROM? I did have an ancient Libretto with Win 95 in ROM and bootup was near instantanious.Edited 2008-07-17 02:19 UTC Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Meridian) Comments great artitle http://osnews.com/thread?323311 http://osnews.com/thread?323311 Great article! I subscribed his blog.Edited 2008-07-17 03:27 UTC Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (caijimin) Comments