On Sat, 17 Dec 2016 10:49:48 +0100, Stefan Bethke wrote: > > Am 17.12.2016 um 07:12 schrieb Ian Smith <smi...@nimnet.asn.au>: > > > > On Fri, 16 Dec 2016 18:08:34 +0100, Fernando Herrero Carrón wrote: > >> My only reason for wanting to boot with UEFI is faster boot, > >> everything is working fine otherwise. > > > > I'm skeptical that UEFI boot would be any or noticeably faster than via > > BIOS, but am interested in hearing of any experiences regarding that. > > In a very quick test with VirtualBox with 10.3-Release, ZFS, booting > with BIOS and autoboot_delay=0, it takes 15 seconds to display > ÿÿBootingÿÿÿÿ. > > With 11.0-R and BIOS it takes about 12. > > With 11.0-R and EFI enabled, it takes less than 3 seconds. > > On real hardware other factors will likely diminish the difference.
Thanks for that, Stefan. I only have older kit here, so was curious. And Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: > Some BIOS start with very long try UEFI boot atempt and try legacy > boot only all of that fails. > > I.e. this is not speedup FreeBSD boot, this is speedup _start_ of > FreeBSD boot for some BIOS. That makes good sense to me. cheers, Ian _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
