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   lamp (lamp@kitty.haus)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 00:01:15 JST lamp
   how come servers like to take their sweet ass time to start up when it's a SERVER where you want MINIMAL DOWNTIME
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 00:01:14 JST 翠星石

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     @lamp GNUboot doesn't have that problem.
     
     Once RAMinit is done, it boots into GRUB instantly.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 00:03:34 JST 翠星石

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     • 7666
     @7666 It's only because the proprietary BIOS developers don't care to actually make it boot fast.
     
     Coreboot boots very fast and then the kernel, Linux can init raid controllers etc very fast, without executing the proprietary Option EEPROM too.
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     lamp (lamp@kitty.haus)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 00:03:35 JST lamp

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     • 7666
     @7666 how come pc for human can do the same shit without taking forever to boot
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     7666 (7666@comp.lain.la)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 00:03:35 JST 7666

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     @lamp because PC for human doesn't have raid controllers, PXE boot ROMs, out of band management cards, QPI/UPI links, or IPMI interfaces to fiddle with before enumerating boot options
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     7666 (7666@comp.lain.la)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 00:03:36 JST 7666

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     @lamp there are a billion option ROMs and things to initialize