Here is a summary on what to do to test parallel booting with Debian/unstable.
- Install the bootchart package to get a graph of the boot process. Do a test boot passing init=/sbin/bootchartd to the kernel during boot to activate it. - Edit /etc/default/rcS, insert CONCURRENCY=startpar to enable parallel init.d script execution with serialized output. - Install the insserv package, run update-bootsystem-insserv to reorder the boot scripts for maximum parallel execution based on dependency information. Review the order in /etc/rc*.d/ to check that it look sane. This step can be undone using 'update-bootsystem-insserv restore' - Edit /etc/default/rcS, switching DELAYLOGIN from yes to no, and thus allow kdm/gdm/xdm to log in users while the machine boots in the background. There are also a few tests I have not tried myself: - Install the preload package to enable readahead at the end of rc2.d/. Not sure if this will speed up the boot or not. - Install the readahead package from Ubuntu, <URL:ftp://ftp.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/r/readahead/>. The files to load should probably be adjusted for Debian, but it might speed up the boot nontheless. Does this work for anyone else but me? Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen _______________________________________________ initscripts-ng-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/initscripts-ng-devel
