Re: faster boots?

[Piotr Esden-Tempski <pe1724@bingo-ev.de>]

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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?  
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>     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).  
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>     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.  
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>     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.
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>   Or is there another way of speeding up the linux kernel boot process?
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