Elv13 Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 Hi I use Linux and OS X (dual boot) on my Mac Book Pro 3.1 (pre-unibody). The boot is not as fast as I would like it to be. I have built a custom grub bootloader for EFI (no bios emulation, no rEFIt). It work great and is as fast as the built in OSX one. That said, the part before the boot loader, the gray screen, is very slow. It take about 5-6 second to past the initial gray screen. As EFI is modular, does someone ever tried to slim this part down? Or any tip to make it faster. Some of these new NetBook can boot in 8 second, EFI included, so, somwhow, it can be slimmed down. Linux boot in 7 second, so id it can cut EFI from 6 to 2 second, it will be as fast. Any idea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QckSlvrGuyInKC Posted September 26, 2010 Share Posted September 26, 2010 Are you using SSD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anonomys1991 Posted November 11, 2010 Share Posted November 11, 2010 maybe have the boot loader written to where it boots the os option first and shows the option between mac osx and linux and have the bootloader load the drivers after that screen so that way its not so messy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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