About a minute and a half. It varies by 2~ seconds at most. Could possibly be related to how Linux does the calibrate_delay() stuff? (And well, I'm also not too sure on how deterministic it's supposed to be in terms of time).

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MPSimmons a day ago | parent [-]

Honestly not that far off from my 486 DX2/66 back in the day

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mjg59 a day ago | parent [-]

We're talking about the equivalent of booting with init=/bin/sh, I don't remember kernel init on x86 ever being that slow

	▲	MPSimmons 19 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Oh yeah, well that may be. Once I got X working in Slack, I did boot into that, but then again, back then I didn't know how to recompile my kernel and the machine did this interesting loop where it would try a few different drivers until it got to the one that worked with my matsushita CD drive.