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Booting Linux Faster

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the every-little-bit dept.

krony writes "IBM's DeveloperWorks explains how to decrease boot times for your Linux box. The concept is to load system services in parallel when possible. Most surprising to me is the use of 'make' to handle dependencies between services." The example system shown is able to cut its boot time in half, but the article stresses the effectiveness can vary widly from machine to machine.

6 of 625 comments (clear)

  1. boot? by willeg · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I rarely have to boot ever after the first boot and patch!

  2. What!?! by ice-monk · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    No first boot trolls?

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    bash-2.05a$ fortune
    bash: fortune: command not found
  3. ms dos boot 2 seconds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    get with the program linux

  4. Re:Predicted response by LordOfYourPants · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ever hear of a "straw man argument"? Well thats exactly what you are making. You invent a problem (in this case "all Linux support sucks")

    The problem wasn't "all Linux support sucks." The problem was "There is a sense of snideness in the Linux community, and trying to ask for support is one of those examples of snideness."

    My final paragraph was more to silence anyone who might have asked "Have you tried Linux?" more than to "brag" about the state of my computer or add to my argument.

  5. perfect /. timing yet again (GRUB help?) by LinuxHam · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm trying to get a quirky PC to boot Debian 3r1, and I can't get it to boot without the rescue floppy.

    LILO gave L 40 40 (repeat indefinitely) at first. I added

    device hda=0x80

    to lilo.conf and that replaced the L 40's with just LI. Compiled a 2.4 kernel, and now I get

    LILO
    L

    instead of

    LILO
    Uncompressing Linux......................

    so I decided to try GRUB, and now the system boots to the grub CLI, and when I try to specify my 2.4 kernel, I get Error 13, unknown or unsupported kernel format. I'm currently recompiling the kernel as a.out format instead of ELF, but it'll take another hour.

    Anyone have any tips? And no, the PC isn't bad, or the RAM, or the hdd's.. I've had this machine running for about four years.. it ran multiple versions of RH6 and 7 before they decided to require a minimum of 64MB RAM. Any help on getting GRUB working would be appreciated.

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  6. Spelling nazi by guacamolefoo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Aren't you guys editors?

    effectiveness can vary widly from machine to machine.

    Widely?
    Wildly?

    GF.

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