Different AmigaOS4 machines boot times: X1000,X5000,Sam460 and Peg2

@kas1e

Hybrid Drive .

SSD same configuration 16 Sec .

After reinstalling the Hybrid drive after the SSD test
goes down to 19 Sec.

@Spectre
AFter reinstalling OS4 on HDD, or after just attach HDD back with old OS4 install ?

@kas1e

just re-attaching the drive.
The Hybrid drive has 8GB of cache that it handles automatically.

@Spectre
Will go the most obvious route for now : will install new os4update2 on SSD with new sata cable. And will see..

@kas1e

I have X50000 040, quite old U-Boot (March 18, 2018) NGFS BETA & SSD.

I noticed that the impact on the U-Boot start time can be connected to the mouse and keyboard (at least my Logitech devices extend the start by a few seconds). However, I have a KVM switch, which is default switched to the Amigaone X1000 support, so I always X5000 booted without a keyboard and mouse, which I switch only when I see the Workbench screen.

@kas1e

My X5000 would take about 55 seconds to boot with an inserted CD medium, and 1:05 minutes without it. I have an SSD disk and a CD-ROM on the internal SATA ports, and a harddisk on a sii3112 SATA card. The HD filesystem is NGFS (the old public version).

Now I have set:

ide_cd_timeout 10
sii3112ide_conf 10 (= HD on the primary port, nothing on the secondary)
sii3112ide_timeout 5

and I'm down to about 34 seconds with a CD inserted, and 44 seconds without it. Animation off, amigaboot_quiet set to Y and bootdelay set to 1.

@Trixie
I seems don't have ide_cd_timeout setup, but i also didn't have issues at begining of loading (there speed comparable), the most speed loss i get when actualy load os4, so probabaly for me it will matter to swap on SSD, which i doing now

My uboot version: molsen 2018-10-05. Whether that is MM-DD or DD-MM I am not sure.

@kas1e

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On my X1000 I get 49 seconds from power on to working system, which includes a five second timeout for the CFE boot menu. It takes 32 seconds from power on to where the progress bar first appears as amigaboot.of starts loading modules (including that five second menu timeout), and another 17 seconds from there to a full working system. That's with the standard (not debug) kernel and a mechanical HDD formatted with SFS2.

@All
So replaced in X5000 HDD on SSD, and install OS4 FE + update1 + update2 on top of it. Now my boot time instead of 48 seconds, takes 37 seconds. Kickstart loading is take about 0.5-1 second now. Whole OS4 loading from amigaboot (white screen), till usable workbench : 12 seconds instead of previous 23 seconds.

With disabled KVM from machine USB scanning goes much faster, and so, i have with pure mouse and keyboard attached directly to X5000: 31 seconds from power off till full working wb !

So it's usb scanning take more time (and for Uboot, and for OS4's usb stack). The more devices you attached, the longer booting you have. It's like +1 usb device mean +1-2 second more to whole boot process.

@msteed
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So if we cut off this 5 seconds menu timeout, then it 44 seconds for for full reboot.. My one 55. But that with additional KVM and passive usb hub. For you it just pure keyboard+mouse ?

@kas1e

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Yes, that's right.