Ogglord

Very interesting thread! Now I not only want Linux on my ADM. I want serial working too 🤣. I have a USBDB9 lying around. Would this little chip be enough...

Okay, that explains a lot. I was quite close to pulling the trigger. The thing holding me back is that once I disable the `asloader.efi` on the built-in flash, there...

Yes, but you had `/cdrom/preeseed.cfg` in the `grub.cfg` and then a comment saying `/cdrom/preeseed.cfg` = `(usb)/preeseed.cfg` that I don't fully understand. Is that a change I should do to my...

Thanks! I will give this a go once I get my serial connection set up

I got my connection working today,  I was surprised to see it's looking for `/boot/grubx64.efi` instead of `/boot/asloader.efi` 

I'm running Debian 11 now, a boot takes roughly 4 minutes. It's slow but not near what you experienced with the cpu crawling on random boots, right? The installation was...

I backed up the internal flash and repurposed it for my /efi and /boot and now I'm able to boot and update kernel etc without manual intervention at least. I...

You were spot on (as always). With only the 2GB stick the boot time reduced from 4 min to approx 40 sec. And its as snappy as I should expect...

I was also thinking if this was the case when I ran ADM. Everyday stuff like opening a shell prompt took like 1.5 sec and felt slow. So in that...

Yes, in short, that made no difference. I was booting the grub below before (with 3GB ram) and after (with 2GB ram) when I experienced the speed boost. ``` ......