Good (and easy to install) fast boot OS

Golf1.6 · 20 Oct 2014 at 19:39

I'd like to install a fast boot OS onto my asus laptop so I can quickly log in and check email and the like.

I experimented with google chrome but it has some issues. Chromium OS was designed to be a primary OS and has trouble working correctly.

So I'm going to bin that idea and install something else.

The motherboard on my laptop supports fast boot OS, and there is a button for it and I've managed to install grub to inject the boot command.

So I am looking for a simple a straightforward linux based OS that is very light and designed to boot in 10 seconds or less.

Any suggestions?

Golf1.6 · 20 Oct 2014 at 22:22

OhEsEcks said:
I think he's talking about those Linux distros that came on certain laptops you could boot into before Windows. Asus had splashtop / express gate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splashtop

no no, splashtop is terrible, doesn't even save wifi logins.

I've found a hack that will use splashtop bootlader and then use it to boot any other linux distro.

I will try lubuntu

Golf1.6 · 22 Oct 2014 at 13:01

had an issue with lubuntu, it would not allow me to select an install partition, it detected windows 7 but even then let me choose whether to replace windows 7 or install alongside it, i chose to install with window 7 but no partition choice was given.

I aborted the installation as the bootloader for fast boot requires the OS to be in an ext2/4 partition and not NTFS

Golf1.6 · 22 Oct 2014 at 13:02

To be honest, I think I'm going to give up trying to install a custom fast boot OS. I think I'm just getting a bit carried away with another "project".

WIndows 7 is reasonably fast with the curcial m4 ssd.

Golf1.6 · 22 Oct 2014 at 16:34

mortals said:
I had ChromeOS on the chromebook and it was OK but way too limited and used over 1GB of RAM from startup

The difficulty with chromium os is it's a Google OS so computer enthusaists aren't so fond of it just like they're not so fond of MS products because it's not open source.

So there is very little support for it. Just like Apple products, Chromium OS is designed to work on select few hardware. So if you are trying to mod it or do anything creative you're just straight out of luck.

Linux is OK but I haven't had much luck with it to date.

It needs to be a fast boot OS and not on dual boot, which is what I'm having difficulty with.