Well - have a look at this quite interesting page: http://www.harald-hoyer.de/linux/f8t3boot enjoy Jo Am Mittwoch, den 14.11.2007, 11:18 -0500 schrieb Tom Horsley: > 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). > -- Joachim Kunze Alte Marktstrasse 16 eMail: joachim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx D-71665 Horrheim Tel:+497042-830006
