On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:58:00 -0500 "John Pierce" <john.j35@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have been looking into the boot times for my HP Pavilion DV9208NR > and the fastest I have achieved is 1 minute 18 seconds. A full 30 > seconds of that is starting redhat nash and udev. I haven't put a stopwatch on it, but I'm pretty certain the nash time increased dramatically between F6 and F7 on the box I have here. Judging from some of the messages I see about "sdc" I suspect one thing F7 is doing that F6 didn't do is wait for my external USB disk to spin up from its power saver mode (which takes a while). I have improved nash time dramatically on other machines by doing things like eradicating all the raid related stuff from the init script in the initrd. I hasten to add this was on a machine that merely happened to have some Windows NT raid disks which I wasn't planning on ever accessing from Linux, but nash insisted on wasting all the time to identify the raid partitions anyway.
