← Back to context Comment by timcobb 2 months ago I don't even think my Pentium 166 took 5 minutes to POST. Did computers ever take that long to POST?? 6 comments timcobb Reply BobbyTables2 2 months ago Look at enterprise servers.Competing POST in under 2 minutes is not guaranteed.Especially the 4 socket beasts with lots of DIMMs. yjftsjthsd-h 2 months ago Old machines probably didn't, no, but I have absolutely seen machines (Enterprise™ Servers) that took longer than that to get to the bootloader. IIRC it was mostly a combination of hardware RAID controllers and RAM... something. Testing? lazide 2 months ago It takes awhile to enumerate a couple TB worth of RAM dimms and 20+ disks. yjftsjthsd-h 2 months ago Yeah, it was somewhat understandable. I also suspect the firmware was... let's say underoptimized, but I agree that the task is truly not trivial. 1 reply → Twirrim 2 months ago Physical servers do. It's always astounding to me how long it takes to initialise all that hardware.
BobbyTables2 2 months ago Look at enterprise servers.Competing POST in under 2 minutes is not guaranteed.Especially the 4 socket beasts with lots of DIMMs.
yjftsjthsd-h 2 months ago Old machines probably didn't, no, but I have absolutely seen machines (Enterprise™ Servers) that took longer than that to get to the bootloader. IIRC it was mostly a combination of hardware RAID controllers and RAM... something. Testing? lazide 2 months ago It takes awhile to enumerate a couple TB worth of RAM dimms and 20+ disks. yjftsjthsd-h 2 months ago Yeah, it was somewhat understandable. I also suspect the firmware was... let's say underoptimized, but I agree that the task is truly not trivial. 1 reply →
lazide 2 months ago It takes awhile to enumerate a couple TB worth of RAM dimms and 20+ disks. yjftsjthsd-h 2 months ago Yeah, it was somewhat understandable. I also suspect the firmware was... let's say underoptimized, but I agree that the task is truly not trivial. 1 reply →
yjftsjthsd-h 2 months ago Yeah, it was somewhat understandable. I also suspect the firmware was... let's say underoptimized, but I agree that the task is truly not trivial. 1 reply →
Twirrim 2 months ago Physical servers do. It's always astounding to me how long it takes to initialise all that hardware.
Look at enterprise servers.
Competing POST in under 2 minutes is not guaranteed.
Especially the 4 socket beasts with lots of DIMMs.
Old machines probably didn't, no, but I have absolutely seen machines (Enterprise™ Servers) that took longer than that to get to the bootloader. IIRC it was mostly a combination of hardware RAID controllers and RAM... something. Testing?
It takes awhile to enumerate a couple TB worth of RAM dimms and 20+ disks.
Yeah, it was somewhat understandable. I also suspect the firmware was... let's say underoptimized, but I agree that the task is truly not trivial.
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Physical servers do. It's always astounding to me how long it takes to initialise all that hardware.