Re: faster boots?

[Mike Touloumtzis <miket@bluemug.com>]

On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 07:56:08AM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> 
> That really should take little time... slow boots are caused by two
> things, a generic kernel which has everything possible included, and a
> slow init script which not only does many things, but does them serially
> and accompanied by many messages. Watching Redhat tap dancing and farting
> through line after line of stuff is painful, and with a serial console on
> a server, hooked to a 9600bps modem, you can not only get a cup of coffe,
> but brew it and drink it as well.

The worst part is when you forget to remove "-C" from the init script
fsck on a machine with a 9600bps serial console.  After a power hit
one machine in our machine closet took 2 hours to come back; finally
figured out it spent most of that time waiting to write progress bars
and twirling batons to /dev/ttyS0.

miket