Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Apr 2002 02:44:19 +0200 | From | Piotr Esden-Tempski <> | Subject | Re: faster boots? |
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Hi,
I think that the speed of the kernel boot is not the main speed problem. You may want to try minit written by Fefe. You can download it and test. I have not tried it myself but I heave seen Fefe's laptop on 18c3 and it booted really impresive fast.
cheers Piotr
On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 06:54:07PM -0500, joeja@mindspring.com wrote: > Hello, > Is there some way of making the linux kernel boot faster? > > While I know that many people here probably don't reboot there machines often, I live in CA where my electrictiy is still high and see no reason to keep a machine on that is not in use (i.e. while I sleep or am at work). > > I tested freebsd on an old P133Mhz/32Meg ram and it booted faster with the GENERIC kernel than linux did on a AMD 1200Mhz/512Meg ram, which seemed odd. Linux on that same P133 box also took longer than FreeBSD to boot. > > If I have a machine that does not change from day to day hardware wise why when I boot the thing do I need to probe the hardware again and again each time? Would passing more options on the command line help like all the addresses and IRQ's of known hardware? > Wouldn't it make sense to store this data on the files system? Certainly if something like grub or lilo can figure out how to access a file on the drive the kernel could check for a 'defaults' file or something to get the default irq's, hardware, interrupts, etc from. Then the kernel could probe these first and if the probe fails proble elsewhere for the device. > > Or is there another way of speeding up the linux kernel boot process? > > Joe > > > > > > > > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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