Lamar Owen wrote:
On 07/09/2014 01:00 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
i find the biggest part of server POST is all the storage and network adapter bios's need to get in there, scan the storage busses, enumerate raids, initialize intel boot agents, and so forth.
I've found that disabling all but the boot device's BIOS works wonders and makes installs far happier, with the exception of real hardware RAID cards. The Linux kernel is quite happy doing any and all fibre-channel
<snip> To me, what takes the most time on POST, far and away, is memory. We had a box - Dell, I *think*, but it might have been a Penguin (Supermicro) that took close to 20 min, before we turned off the memory check (well, yes, 256GB RAM)....
What I wish didn't take so long is the raid-45? driver, which seems to take forever, and always has.
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