Sort of like LinuxBIOS ( www.linuxbios.org )? :) On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, yfede wrote:
> I guess it was without rc scripts and init, just time needed by bios+kernel > to boot... > I'm interested in the same subject, but have no idea of what to do for > reducing both. > I noticed that the majority of time is taken by IDE hardware to be probed. > I know that I can force BIOS settings not to probe for it every time, just > setting the correct parameters in CMOS for disks instead of making BIOS > guess what the values are every time. > Is it possible to do the same with linux kernel as well? > Another solution for reducing boot times would be skipping completely BIOS > initializations, since linux kernel doesn't rely on them and performs them > again when it starts. This could be done by replacing BIOS firmware with a > simpler one that only loads kernel in ram and starts it... kinda of LILO on > ROM, if you got what I mean. Does something like that exist? > Thank you in advance for attention, > Fede. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "ron minnich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "John Usher (Maptek)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 6:08 AM > Subject: Re: Linux Startup Times [PMX:#] > > > > On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, John Usher (Maptek) wrote: > > > > > Linux startup times? Linux on our systems is taking more than 10 seconds > > > to start, and I guess its due to it searching for devices and the like. > > > > with/without the rc scripts? > > > > ron > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Linuxbios mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linuxbios mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
