That and the fact that the kernel us ussual on a ROM/flash card/EEPROM with seek and access times much lower that your average HDD. You are unlikely to get very low boot times (5 seconds etc) on a PC unless you get the kernel to load from the BIOS chip or memory card in the computer, even then you will have to wait for hardware initialise on the system (IDE chains, PnP BIOS, sound card etc) which can take some seconds.
thanks, Peter > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 23 July 2002 10:25 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [SLUG] how to reduce kernel booting time? > > > Mostly I suspect it's done by customising the kernel to only include the > features they want. > Startup (init) scripts would also be tuned to start only > necessary services. > > ty > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: well [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Monday, 22 July 2002 17:00 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [SLUG] how to reduce kernel booting time? > > > > > > Hi SLUG > > > > I heard from magazine that some embedded linux spend a very > > short time to > > boot system, > > even 3 seconds. > > > > Do you have any idea how to make it possible? > > Is to Hack kernel to make it do nothing when booting?? > > or something else?? > > > > any responds is helpful. > > > > W.B > > > > -- > > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
