Re: [gentoo-user] how to make gentoo boot faster? (kernel 2.6.1) now: software hibernate for 2.6

2004-02-10 Thread HvR
No. i used it on 2.4 but the hibernate would take too long, a full reboot was faster (tjee i only have 640M of memory), i was hoping that 2.6 now has this feature well build-in, i am so envious off the windows people who just close the lid on their laptop and the thing hibernates, then they ope

Re: [gentoo-user] how to make gentoo boot faster? (kernel 2.6.1)

2004-02-10 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 16:13:53 -0800 HvR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why not use the hibernate feature of 2.6, then you wont need to reboot > and between sleeps it uses no battery... You got it working? I tried it (default from kernel), and it majorly hung my laptop to serious proportions ;-) I u

Re: [gentoo-user] how to make gentoo boot faster? (kernel 2.6.1)

2004-02-10 Thread Arne Vogel
Tianran Chen wrote: i notice that every time it startup, the dependency of services are scaned and checked, which take about 2~3 seconds. i wonder is this a step that can be cut off? This is done in /etc/init.d/depscan.sh. You could try to disable this, but you should rather have a bootdisk (o

Re: [gentoo-user] how to make gentoo boot faster? (kernel 2.6.1)

2004-02-10 Thread Cory Tusar
http://www.linuxbios.org "...The LinuxBIOS gunzip's the Linux kernel straight out of NVRAM and essentially requires no moving parts other than the fan. It does a minimal amount of hardware initialization before jumping to the kernel start and lets Linux do the rest. As a result, it is much fast

Re: [gentoo-user] how to make gentoo boot faster? (kernel 2.6.1)

2004-02-09 Thread Tianran Chen
thanks, is this feature stable now? i had used it back in 2.4.1x age (with swsusp 1.x/0.x cannot recall) , but it wasn't very stable yet at that time. is it stable enough that i can confidently hibernate even while working on some really really important project? also, now do i still have to us

Re: [gentoo-user] how to make gentoo boot faster? (kernel 2.6.1)

2004-02-09 Thread HvR
Why not use the hibernate feature of 2.6, then you wont need to reboot and between sleeps it uses no battery... On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 14:00, Jerry McBride wrote: On Monday 09 February 2004 02:44 pm, Tianran Chen wrote: > hi all, > > i am using a laptop, so i reboot very frequently. i have bee

Re: [gentoo-user] how to make gentoo boot faster? (kernel 2.6.1)

2004-02-09 Thread Azhdeen
> On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 21:03, Tianran Chen wrote: > I have noticed that ext3 partitions mount considerably quicker than > reiserfs ones of the same size... you can also change the order the things start. for example, start xdm earlier, that way, the rest of your startup stuff finishes loading whil

Re: [gentoo-user] how to make gentoo boot faster? (kernel 2.6.1)

2004-02-09 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 09 February 2004 02:44 pm, Tianran Chen wrote: > hi all, > > i am using a laptop, so i reboot very frequently. i have been tried to > make the booting process faster for a long time. right now, i had done > following reduction on my system: > > 1) NO X at all (use emacs and links in frame

Re: [gentoo-user] how to make gentoo boot faster? (kernel 2.6.1)

2004-02-09 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 09 February 2004 02:55 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 14:44:03 -0500 (EST) Tianran Chen > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | is there anything i can do to make it even faster? 10s will be my > | goal. thanks for any idea! > > *** WARNING: UNSUPPORTED HACK BELOW *** > Edit /

Re: [gentoo-user] how to make gentoo boot faster? (kernel 2.6.1)

2004-02-09 Thread Jerry McBride
Nope. That's one of "those features" that I'd like to see dissappear also... On Monday 09 February 2004 04:03 pm, Tianran Chen wrote: > i notice that every time it startup, the dependency of services are scaned > and checked, which take about 2~3 seconds. i wonder is this a step that > can be cut

Re: [gentoo-user] how to make gentoo boot faster? (kernel 2.6.1)

2004-02-09 Thread Tom Wesley
On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 21:03, Tianran Chen wrote: > i notice that every time it startup, the dependency of services are scaned > and checked, which take about 2~3 seconds. i wonder is this a step that > can be cut off? also, is /etc/init.d/modules neccesary? > > > On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Ciaran McCr

Re: [gentoo-user] how to make gentoo boot faster? (kernel 2.6.1)

2004-02-09 Thread Tianran Chen
i notice that every time it startup, the dependency of services are scaned and checked, which take about 2~3 seconds. i wonder is this a step that can be cut off? also, is /etc/init.d/modules neccesary? On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 14:44:03 -0500 (EST) Tianra

Re: [gentoo-user] how to make gentoo boot faster? (kernel 2.6.1)

2004-02-09 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 14:44:03 -0500 (EST) Tianran Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | is there anything i can do to make it even faster? 10s will be my | goal. thanks for any idea! *** WARNING: UNSUPPORTED HACK BELOW *** Edit /etc/conf.d/rc and screw around with some of the settings. In particular, R

[gentoo-user] how to make gentoo boot faster? (kernel 2.6.1)

2004-02-09 Thread Tianran Chen
hi all, i am using a laptop, so i reboot very frequently. i have been tried to make the booting process faster for a long time. right now, i had done following reduction on my system: 1) NO X at all (use emacs and links in framebuffer). 2) no modules at all, everything in kernel. 3) no network,