On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:34:44PM +0200, Ragnar Thomsen wrote: > On Thursday 27 September 2012 15:05:00 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > My system boots to the login prompt in about 8 seconds without it. How > > much time do you think it might save? > > My system boots to login in around 10 seconds, and when I use KDM an > additional 20 seconds. So I was hoping it might cut half of the 10 seconds at > least... > > I use a laptop which means it gets restarted a lot, so every second counts... > > -Ragnar-
I've got a netbook running ubuntu (haven't found time to look at building LFS, or even my own kernel, on it), and the only time I have to reboot it is when I forget to plug it in to the charger. The rest of the time, it suspends to RAM (tried suspend to disk when I first got it, but something, probably the screen, was trashed on resume). No real idea *how* suspend is controlled (previously, on ibooks, I used pbbuttonsd :) but it might be a more practical approach than trying to speed time when booting. Actually, I might find time to take a look at suspend : I've found manpages for s2ram and s2both online - s2both supposedly needs an initrd to resume from disk if the power ran out, and perhaps plays about with grub. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
