> > Edit: 19s without the hard drive attached.
>
> Man, you must have no crazy peripherals. My workstation takes longer than that to
> just get to the point of looking for the OS. The LSI SAS controller, Chelsio 40GbE
> NIC and even the onboard Intel NIC take their sweet time to initialise. My servers
> take even longer from a cold boot for live diagnostics, power management, cooling
> control, and the peripherals all do their thing. Floppy boot times weren't really all
> that bad compared to the time it takes for peripherals to start (of course the system
> is much faster when it's actually running, and you don't shut down very often).
Well, I'm pretty sure it was longer than 19s to the Wise Care prompt. After all, Wise Care can't really start counting before the OS even loads. Still, it is much quicker than from the HDD.
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