eee PCs Boot Booster
Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:12 - Daniel - Other - Comments (2)
All eee PCs have a feature called Boot Booster. This caches the Bios and Video Bios onto the HDD and speeds up booting by a few seconds.
To enable it you have to set up a primary partition on the first HDD with at least 8 MB and the type code 0xEF.
After the next reboot the Bios will cache itself into this partition and a new option is available in the Boot options called Boot Booster. Enable it and the eee PC will skill Bios loading and Bios configuration and will directly load the Boot Loader.
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I just got a 1005ha and accidentally deleted the boost partition. im running windows 7 starter and I dont know where to type the 0xEF. any help would be appreciated
First create a new partition with at least 8 MB. The type doesn't matter for now. Maybe you have to resize the Windows partition or reformat your hard disk.
Now, boot Linux from an USB drive (e.g. Puppy Linux or Knoppix), open a terminal and start fdisk. You need to be root to do that. Now follow the on screen dialogs to change your partition type.
I'm sure there are other and easier ways to do this and there are other partitioning tools out there that can change the partition type, but I haven't tried anything else.
0xEF is "EFI" by the way. Also see this list of partition types.