FreeBSD Boot Times

[Dieter BSD]

Brandon writes:
> Booting into Ubuntu minimal or my own custom Linux distro,
> literally takes 0.5-2 seconds to boot up to shell

0.5-2 seconds from power-on to a shell prompt?  How do you
get through the firmware that fast, much less firmware plus
an OS?

Which reminds me, back when I was triple-booting Free, Net, and
penguinix, I noticed that when rebooting, penguinix didn't go
through all the firmware stuff like the BSDs do.  That is one
way to save a lot of time, at least for reboots.