Boot Times

[Quentin]

After reading the "Using XPe in real embedded systems" thread I thought it
would be interesting to start a thread on boot times. I'm curious how fast
your device boots into XPe? What did you have to do to get it booting
faster?

Quentin.

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Hi Quentin,

Actually we already discussed this before in this NG.

I'm curious how fast your device boots into XPe?

I'm curious what are the required features that OS must support in this test.

I was able to obtain less than 2 sec from BIOS to command prompt by using resume from hibernation. (Just for test purposes)

You will need.
1. Faster boot medium.
2. Video drivers that do not stall. (NVIDIA drivers can take more than 4 seconds to init when resuming from hibernation, ATI takes
less than a 1 second)
3. Fast processor/s.
4. Small image size.
5. No time needy services.
6. Fast memory.

Separate issue is if BIOS can skip POST and go right to OS boot.

Best regards,
Slobodan

 

[Old Boy]

if you really want to be amazed install and boot DOS with win 3.1 on any P4

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Last time I tried this on PIII I think.

It was something like few seconds
Also it was possible to trim it down so application with os can be put on 1.44 MB.

Regards,
Slobodan

 

[KM]

Some of my minlogon very trimmed images boot in a few seconds on AMD Athlon 1.9 GHz.
I guess it is not the DOS boot time but may still be acceptable in embedded space.