Re: faster boot sequence

2002-12-11 Thread Rupert
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:00:13 +0100 Jason Majors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I speed up the boot process? This page claims a boot time of 3 seconds. http://www.acl.lanl.gov/linuxbios/ > I'm using a fairly minimal Sid install with a 2.4.19 custom kernel and ext3 > (for the instant p

Re: faster boot sequence

2002-12-11 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 06:41:44PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > > Jason Majors wrote: > > > I've started a project http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/oggcastd/ to play > > > Ogg Vorbis and MP3 files in my car. The box I use boots automatically when > > > it gets power, but it still takes almost 30

Re: faster boot sequence

2002-12-10 Thread Jason Majors
> Jason Majors wrote: > > I've started a project http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/oggcastd/ to play > > Ogg Vorbis and MP3 files in my car. The box I use boots automatically when > > it gets power, but it still takes almost 30s after I turn the key to get > > sound. > > How can I speed up the bo

Re: faster boot sequence

2002-12-10 Thread Joey Hess
sean finney wrote: > also, i don't remember how 'experimental' it is to date, but the linux > kernel has some kind of hardware suspend feature (where the running kernel > dumps it's state/memory to a swapfile) that you might be able to use. of > course not only do i not remember how to use it, i do

Re: faster boot sequence

2002-12-10 Thread Joey Hess
Jason Majors wrote: > I've started a project http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/oggcastd/ to play > Ogg Vorbis and MP3 files in my car. The box I use boots automatically when > it gets power, but it still takes almost 30s after I turn the key to get > sound. > How can I speed up the boot process?

Re: faster boot sequence

2002-12-10 Thread sean finney
first things first, have you completely stripped-down the kernel to only have the stuff you absolutely need? also, i don't remember how 'experimental' it is to date, but the linux kernel has some kind of hardware suspend feature (where the running kernel dumps it's state/memory to a swapfile) tha