Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Apr 2002 22:00:22 -0500 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: faster boots? |
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On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 06:51:46PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Still. Joe tells me (offlist) that his machine is taking > ages just to get to the "starting init" stage.
I find that on heavily scsi systems: one machine spins each of 13 disks up sequentially. This makes the initial boot take 3-5 minutes before init even gets its foot in the door. If someone made a patch to spin up scsi disks on the first access, I'd gladly give it a test. ;-)
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