[Debian-eeepc-devel] Suggesting Boot Booster on wiki

[Alessandro Pellizzari]

Il giorno mer, 26/11/2008 alle 18.23 -0500, Kris Van Hees ha scritto:

> I wonder how small that partition can actually be.  One way to find out (other
> than trying different sizes) might be to actually try to find out what is in
> that partition.  My wild guess is that it stores probe results from hardware
> probes done by the BIOS, so that at subsequent boots, the BIOS no longer has
> to probe for hardware (and wait for results etc).  But that is only a guess.

I remember I read somewhere that it stores a copy of the detected
hardware and a copy of the VGA config.
The minimum on my 900 is 1 HD sector, or 8 MB, but I think it fills much
less. Maxmimum 3-400 KB, I think.

Bye.

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Alessandro Pellizzari