Stefan Bambach wrote: >Hello, > >I have the m810lmr (SiS) board and it needs about 12 seconds >to exec init process with a Duron 950 MHz and 512MB ram. > >Do you reach the 3 seconds with actual boards, or was it >with the good old small 2.2.x kernel, some time ago ? > >Even the linuxbios startup is about 3 seconds (with serial >console activated), than the kernel needs its time (IDE >timeout (about 2 seconds), the rest is 6-7 seconds), and >the init process needs only 1-2 seconds (with network, ssh, >http, squid, ... ) . > >How can I speed up my booting time ? > >Is something wrong with my config (linuxbios, kernel) or >hardware (CPU too slow ?) ? > >Can you give some general tips about optimizing the bootup >time ? > This 3 sec to init is on DoC with module-as-possible kernel. The boot time certainly depends on you media to store kernel image, how large your kernel image is and finally, the IDE spin up.
Ollie
