G5 boot time

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System: G5 1.6, 1.2 Gb RAM

Boot Time (Button press to CD in drive appearing on the desktop): 1 minute, 1 second.

Performance: anyone remember those old Maxell commercials, with the guy sittin in the chair being blown back by the sound from the stereo? It's kinda like that.

Opinion: Oh my &*^%ing GOD! Schwing!

There are some things in life that money can't buy. For everything else, there's Macintosh....
 
What about the Apple commercial where the guy literally gets blasted out of the house? Is it like that?
 
In each Mac that I have ever timed, with the same processor: more RAM=longer boot times. How about reports from someone who has tried Panther on any G5?
 
That seems about normal if you still have only 384 MB in your iMac, I get about 55 secs in that config with Jaguar. If you've maxed it out to 1 GB, that's pretty fast. (I usually time my 500Mhz, 1 GB Ram to about 1min 15 secs. Again, in my experience, more RAM needs a longer boot time.
 
My pismo 400 with panther 7b59 and 320M RAM is booting in 50 seconds...

btw panther makes it feel like an 867 g4...
 
I want a G5...Does anybody have any sort of educated guess about how the G5 is going to develop...steve promised us a 3.0Ghz by next summer, does anybody have any guesses of what may happen in between?
 
Good morning

It doesn't matter what kind of machine or processor a boot sequence is pretty much similiar. The person that noted that with more RAM the sequence is longer is correct. One of the first steps is to check physical RAM. The more RAM the longer it takes.

Also, during the boot sequence the minimum amount of resources are really available, since these are the ones simply required to get the thing up and running. It takes the drivers being loaded and other software (much later in the sequence) for the advanced hardware and software to become available.

Lastly, the boot sequence can vary from machine to machine depending on the settings, just like the log in sequence can change depending on the user.

I used a G4 at home and a dual Xeon at work and the dual Xeon takes much longer. Also, if there is a SCSI chain active that has it's own boot sequence.

My point is that in terms of overall performance, the boot sequence is not very indicative.

Take care.

David
 
Just for the record, ANY of these times is better than any version of OS 9... which very often took almost 2 to 3 minutes, depending on how it was configured.
 
I know in OS 9 you can disable memory checking at startup... I wonder if you can do this in OS X? Or is it not a good idea since it's so finicky about RAM?

Weezer: In 6 months, we'll have 2.0, 2.2 and 2.4 Ghz. 6 months after that, we'll be at 2.6, 2.8 and 3.0. [/speculation]
 
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