Re: faster boots?

[Alan Cox]

> My impression is that the time during kernel initialization is either
> spent spinning up disks or in a million device probes and things going
> on behind the scenes.  I haven't had a chance to look farther though.

IDE is less of a problem normally. In the LinuxBIOS case it may become
measurable, and the initial drive spinup has to occur before the firmware
responds. (If I understand it rightly most of the drive firmware is on
the disk). For the spin up/down the IDE folks put it in the drives which 
makes life much simpler