On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:42:32 +0530 "Rohan Kulkarni" <rohan.sjce@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > I just installed fedora 8.I checked the boot up time.It came > to 92 seconds.I then removed some of the services and the boot up time > came down to 50 seconds.But still this is a long time.How can I > further reduce the boot up time? Make a big deal about how awful the boot time is and say you are switching to openSUSE 10.3? (The openSUSE folks actually did cut the boot time down dramatically). If enough people do this, maybe the Fedora guru's will decide to show up openSUSE by making boots even faster on Fedora. :-). On a more serious note, I get the distinct impression that an awful lot of time wasting stuff is happening in the initrd script. It seems to be spending a lot of time searching for LVMs or raids and wot-not (I don't have any, but it has to wait for my external USB drive to spin up to find that out :-). New in Fedora 8 I now get a message on each boot about not finding some selinuxfs filesystem (I don't have selinux enabled). I have this feeling I could delete about half the stuff in the initrd script and double the speed at which I boot, but I haven't tried the experiment yet (and even if it worked, I'd have to keep doing it over and over on each new kernel update).
