[Arm-dev] Gigabyte MP30-AR0

[Jeremiah Rothschild]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 05:03:46PM +0000, Michael Howard wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/03/2016 16:45, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 10:31:20AM +0000, Michael Howard wrote:
> >>5 seconds only to be precise, at least on my board :)
> >I found TFTP to be slower and more unreliable than that.  However my
> >TFTP server is dnsmasq running on an old box,
> 
> That could be the reason then. Sdcards are painfully slow so you get
> what you pay for metaphorically speaking. No big deal either way I
> guess but I much prefer tftp here on a completely 1Gb network and a
> tftp server on a 24/7 Xenserver VM.

Both methods are a little unorthodox - at least in my experience. Is there
a spinning disk based solution perhaps, too? I would imagine the chain
could be loaded from any storage resource. Can it be hacked onto an extra
OS drive partition or something?

> >so that could be a
> >factor.  Anyway, flashing TianoCore worked for me (see elsewhere on
> >this thread) and means the box doesn't depend on the network to boot.
> 
> Each to their own of course but if I have no network, my server
> isn't much use to me.
> 
> -- 
> Mike Howard
> 
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