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.
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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!