USB booting :: Using USB 2.0 for faster booting?
I think is sticking to usb 1.1, yet my USB stick and system is usb 2.0....
if I use the "dsl toram" option when booting, it takes quite a while to load it all to ram, and it would be a lot quicker if I could somehow use usb2 for the extra speed.
Is this possible? How could I do this if it is?
You are already using USB2 speeds.
The ehci-hcd module that loads at boot is the USB2 module.
It takes my little usb1.1 keyfob almost 4 minutes to load toram, but the USB 2 will do it in about 90 secs.
Even with USB 2, the USB bus still has much less bandwidth than a PATA interface.
Ahh, ok that's great... I guess my usb2 pendrive takes just over a minute or two to copy everything to ram, I thought that seemed a long time, but I guess it's doing the whole 50meg so that would explain the wait. I find it runs a lot faster from ram, so it's worth the wait. 
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