Button-to-Grub times

[Amedee Van Gasse (ub)]

On Wed, March 31, 2010 15:05, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> With Ubuntu 10.04's speedy bootup, it looks like the real bottleneck
> is now the time that the machine takes to get to the Grub screen and
> the Grub timeout itself. I would like to compile a list of machine's
> BTG (Button-to-Grub) times, the time (in seconds) that it takes to get
> to the Grub screen from the initial Power Button press. Next time you
> boot, please time this and reply with your machine's details
> (Desktops: motherboard, BIOS version and revision, hard drive(s);
> Notebooks: model and BIOS revision) and BTG time. Thanks!

Except for satisfying your statistical curiosity, what are you going to do
with that data?