Re:“Last Mile” Barriers to Removing Legacy BIOS [pdf]
by jandrese on Saturday November 18, 2017 @05:08PM
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My favorite is waiting 8-10 minutes for UEFI to finish whatever the hell it is doing to have exactly one second to hit the appropriate F key to get into the boot options.
Re:“Last Mile” Barriers to Removing Legacy BIOS [pdf]
by exikyut on Saturday November 18, 2017 @08:07PM
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On servers, I presume?
Re:“Last Mile” Barriers to Removing Legacy BIOS [pdf]
by userbinator on Saturday November 18, 2017 @08:19PM
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That's probably due to a very thorough memory test, and it's not particular to UEFI either --- I have worked with older servers, with regular BIOS, that do the same thing. There may be an option to disable it.
Re:“Last Mile” Barriers to Removing Legacy BIOS [pdf]
by kabdib on Sunday November 19, 2017 @01:07AM
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Memory tests are a big part of it, but definitely not the only really slow component.
(The 10+ minute boot time on our bigger servers already is the fast version of the memory test. I've never turned on the more exhaustive one).
Re:“Last Mile” Barriers to Removing Legacy BIOS [pdf]
by exikyut on Sunday November 19, 2017 @02:13AM
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Yeow!
What are the other tests? I mean, there's the CPU, memory, the disks, PCI... surely you don't have SCSI, option ROMs should be quick... I'm genuinely curious.
What sort of server is it, for reference? (Well, I'm really just wondering how much RAM it has.)
And now I'm wondering how long the longer test takes!
As for the arguments that it's got poor performance, I'd like to point out that the BIOS / UEFI based systems on most of the systems I work with take minutes to POST, tens of minutes for the bigger machines, and I think it's a clear case of not looking critically at their own work.