nariox wrote: Mine takes probably 2~3 seconds to get to grub. However, my system is installed on the SSD. I'm guessing it takes some time for Seabios to detect the USB, initialize it, mount and load grub. but with everything loaded into ram, the system should be blazing fast. As long as you have suspend going, boot time shouldn't be a problem, right?

I'm installed to the 16G SSD. Here's approximately what I see:

1) From pressing the power button until the white screen comes on that says to hit the space bar to re-enable secure mode --- ~2 seconds

2) That white screen stays displayed --- ~ 2 seconds

3) Seabios loads and gives you a chance to hit the escape key for boot menu --- ~5 seconds

4) Grub loads --- ~ 1 second.

I enabled legacy boot with "crossystem dev_boot_usb=1 dev_boot_legacy=1" and removed the write protect screw and did "set_gbb_flags.sh 0×489". Did you do anything different? Maybe I got different crappy firmware

I did try kernel 3.13.11, no luck with suspend. Again works on all my other laptops, just reboots with this one. Maybe it doesn't like that I'm using a initrd or maybe there's something in my kernel config that sets it off.