http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_build_a_LiveCD_from_scratch#Optimizing_the_booting_process
this link has a few tips on speeding up boot time it shaves a few seconds Hanni On 13/10/05, Natanael Copa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On ons, 2005-10-12 at 19:08 -0300, Francisco J. A. Ares wrote: > > Hi, All > > > > I'm about to launch an embeded product runing Gentoo Linux. Everything > > is working perfectly now, but I really would like to have a faster boot. > > Take a look at initng. It is really fast (if you compare to standard > gentoo bootscripts). > > If that is not fast enough - take a look at software suspend. > > > As this computer will not have upgrades, at least not as usual as a > > common desktop, I think that the cold/hotplug could be replaced by > > something else, although I plan to use an external USB disk on maintenance. > > I was thinking of something similar some time ago. The idea was that if > there is no /etc/modules run coldplug and list all loaded modules > into /etc/modules, otherwise skip coldplug and just load the modules > listed in /etc/modules. That would not detect if you have plugged a new > USB device when powered off though. > > If you think that hotplugging is to slow (that there is a delay after > you have plugged the external device until the device shows up) there is > a hotplug-ng that is written in C instead of bash (like the standard > hotplug system is). It is supposed to be faster. > > I think I posted an ebuild at bugzilla some time ago. > > > Another little detail: I have already seen that the Knoppix CD starts > > with a lo-res bitmap while starting its services and probably detecting > > the hardware and then it changes to a full-res version of the same image > > when it is starting KDE. How can I do that? I have almost done that > > with the frame buffer bootup image and just after starting X the first > > task is to change the background image to a copy of that used on the > > boot sequence, but still there is a gap where one can see the X' > > checkered background. > > > > Any sugestions? > > You can try setting another background bitmap and background color in > some resource file. The screen would be black or something while waiting > for the backround image to show up. > > > Thanks a lot > > Francisco > > -- > gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: 07985580147 Website: www.ainkaboot.co.uk -- gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org mailing list
