On 2010-11-25, Helmut Jarausch <jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: > I'd suggest SystemRescueCD.
That was my first thought, but it's not going to > It's upgraded quite often (currently using kernel 2.6.35-x) has a > ready to go X11 environment and most useful, it's an up-to-date > Gentoo system, so one immediately knows where to look if there are > any problems. And it has a well documented (easy) procedure for > extending it. But, I'm going to have to speed up the boot time considerably: >> I thought about using a customized systemrescuecd, but that takes >> ages to boot (almost 5 minutes). This CD is intended as something a >> customer can run to do a quick hardware test, and making them sit >> there for 5 minutes to see a 5-second test just isn't going to fly. The current version of the liveCD I'm attempting to replace boots in about 10 seconds on the same machine that takes 5 minutes to boot systemrescue CD. Slowing the boot time that much isn't going to be acceptable. I'm trying to figure out ways to speed up systemrescuecd. I may ditch the squashfs stuff entirely and run from the initrd filesystem. It looks like that should save a minute or two. After that I'm going to try disabling Networking and most block device (IDE, PATA, floppy, SCSI, and SATA) support. -- Grant
