Re: faster boots?

[Mark H. Wood]

On Thu, 4 Apr 2002 [e-mail] wrote:
[snip]
> If I have a machine that does not change from day to day hardware
> wise why when I boot the thing do I need to probe the hardware again
> and again each time?  Would passing more options on the command line
> help like all the addresses and IRQ's of known hardware?
> Wouldn't it make sense to store this data on the files system? Certainly
> if something like grub or lilo can figure out how to access a file on
> the drive the kernel could check for a 'defaults' file or something to
> get the default irq's, hardware, interrupts, etc from.  Then the kernel
> could probe these first and if the probe fails proble elsewhere for the
> device.

Eww, it sounds like all that unnecessary and problematic hardware info.
that MS Windows saves in the Registry, instead of doing the sensible
thing by asking the hardware.  Please don't go there.

-- 
Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer   [e-mail]
MS Windows *is* user-friendly, but only for certain values of "user".