From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Philippe <philippe@accuitee.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: DOC2k booting speed ...
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:07:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1075129659.24024.86.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000501c3e41d$c858e780$247dfea9@jennifer>
On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 16:05 +0100, Philippe wrote:
> When grub is booting, it takes 10 seconds to load the kernel and 35 seconds
> to load the initrd.
> -> 5MB loaded : 45sec
>
> When I boot from the Doc but with loading from the hard drive it takes 1
> seconds to load the kernel and 2 seconds to load the initrd.
> -> 5MB loaded : 3sec
Grub's drivers are not particularly optimised. Why use an initrd rather
loaded by the bootloader, rather than having the kernel itself access
the device? That should be much faster, and wouldn't even need to whole
device to be read at startup.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-26 15:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-26 15:05 DOC2k booting speed Philippe
2004-01-26 15:07 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2004-01-26 16:15 ` RE : " Philippe
2004-01-26 16:17 ` David Woodhouse
2004-01-26 16:39 ` RE : " Philippe
2004-01-26 16:51 ` David Woodhouse
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