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		Hello71 on Jan 27, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Distri: 20x faster initramfs (initrd) from scratch BIOS I/O calls are extremely slow. EFI boot-time services are significantly faster.

glandium on Jan 28, 2020 [–]

That's on a machine with EFI.

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