there is also an 'early-login' method to speed up your boot. Here's a website how somebody used a bootchart (neat graphics) to figure out where the delays went:
http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/Boot_Linux_In_25_Seconds_ or http://www.improvedsource.com/view.php/Linux-System/2/ Another thing to look out for is the linuxbios (slightly technical) http://www.linuxbios.org/index.php/Main_Page peter On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, Jacques B. wrote:
Well I just go: chkconfig --level 2345 kudzu off Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/Thanks Cameron. That did exactly what I was looking to do. But it had minimal impact on bootup time. Actually when I re-enabled it and viewed the verbrose bootup process (rather than the GUI with the timer bar) I noticed that scanning for hardware changes takes very little time (a maybe a second). The performance gain isn't worth it, so I'll leave it enabled just to keep it simple in the event I add something down the road and forget how to renable kudzu. But it's a good command to know. Glad I found out about it. I've been picking away at a script that captures live data from a Linux system prior to shutting it down (for a post mortem forensic analysis of it). The output of this command with the --list option would be of value to capture. Thanks, Jacques B.+
