[TriLUG] Speeding up the boot process of a Linux box

[Tim Jowers]

Hey Alan,

What are some of the things you did?  I skimmed the article but did not see
removing the initrd or some other low-hanging fruit (non-compressed kernel,
customize the drivers to the HW, no HW detect, ...).  I believe the Linux
BIOS is the end game. As long as we have a jump from the old-school BIOS
then we are still wasting time in the boot process. I mean, how many
computers actually change from boot to boot? Ought to be a special button to
run the old BIOS and HW detect etc. Otherwise, boot with same settings as
last time.

Tim
P.S> Believe it or not, I saw something like that product on TV and geared
toward strict Jewish and other people who did not want to work on Sabbath.
It wasn't an Oven but some other thing so the food would be pre-prepared.

On 3/26/07, Alan Porter <porter at trilug.org> wrote:
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> > These articles always make me wonder why people are rebooting so often?
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> I don't think it's matter of rebooting OFTEN.  It's more about how Linux
> "feels".  If it feels dog-slow, then it gives people a very bad
> impression.
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> When I worked on a home appliance [1] that runs embedded Linux, I put a
> fair amount of attention into the time it took to boot, and what is
> displayed on the screen during the boot process.  We did not want the
> thing to look like a PC -- it should look like an appliance.  In the
> end, my boot times ended up being about 75 seconds... too long in my
> opinion (I thought that 8 seconds to boot my Ericsson cell phone was too
> long).  But the appliance was usually left powered on, and management
> found 75 seconds to be acceptable.
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> Alan
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> [1] http://www.tmio.com
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