I'm busy optimising for boot speed now (my base hardware is P2 300MHz / 128MB ram) and so far I've got it down to a little under 3 minutes. The same disk boots in 38 seconds on an 1.6G Atom.
My next step is to attempt to remove initrd from the kernel as that stage of the boot process is now well over half my boot time. Is there a reason why this is doomed to failure? I'll be using this with fully static/known hardware so there is no need for hardware detection after start up. Strangely the keyboard is recognised at any point and is usable, but USB devices are not (not a problem for me). Has anyone else not seen a speed improvement after using the boot=quickreboot flag? To date I have: stripped the Debian boot menu commented out the shutdown prompt switched off udev removed hald and all dependencies avoided installing network-manager David Cottrill NCH Software Level 3, 28 University Avenue GPO Box 1169 Canberra ACT 2601 Australia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
