Fast starts...

[Ronald G. Minnich]

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Nathanael Noblet wrote:

> 	I've been following the discussion on the "Booting from floppy" 
> thread. Someone said that there are better ways to get fast starts, 
> like the DoC and CF IDE and what not. I'm still thinking that you're 
> going to be waiting for the typical BIOS to run its course. So what 
> were they referring to? something like XIP type CF or what?


yes, you can put IDE-FLASH in a conventional BIOS and still wait for 5 
minutes in some cases. 

ron