<quote who="Kevin Saenz"> > Just have a question is there a way to boot linux without using a > bootloader.
So, in much the same way as you can copy a kernel to a floppy and it 'just boots', I'm sure there is some way of doing a similar thing from your hard drive. But it's relatively dangerous, and I'm sure it will involve a bunch of annoying restrictions in what you can do. > I don't want the option to select new kernels or other OSes. I would like > to speed up the boot process as well. I have services down to absolute > minimum. If it helps I am running Gentoo. There are better ways to speed up the boot process. There are also better ways to spend your time, such as having a coffee while your computer boots instead of wasting hours shaving milliseconds off the boot time. :-) Your best bet is to configure your bootloader to not wait for you... *BUT* make absolutely sure you have some kind of fallback, unless you like to repair problems by booting from CD or whatever (during which you'll waste more time booting from the CD, let alone mucking around with fixing your system, than you'd have saved by shaving mere moments off your boot time). - Jeff -- GUADEC 2006: Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain http://2006.guadec.org/ "I think his crackpipe is mixed with helium or something." - Colin Walters on Hans Reiser -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
