FC6 faster boot

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 4/10/06, dragoran <dragoran at feuerpokemon.de> wrote:
>
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 4/9/06, *dragoran* <dragoran at feuerpokemon.de
> > <mailto:dragoran at feuerpokemon.de>> wrote:
> >
> >     Before FC4 was released there was a disussion about how to make
> >     the boot
> >     process faster.
> >     But until now (FC5/FC6-rawhide) nothing has been done.
> >     Early login was in development but it stopped,
> >     Systemservices was never in a working state.
> >     Any plans on improving the boot process in FC6?
> >     I would suggest to use initng which is in review for extras now [1].
> >     But to get it in the final release it would be better to have it in
> >     rawhide rather than in extras.
> >
> >     [1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=173459
> >
> > First off I am sure you have a valid point. But I personally thing
> > that booting has gotten faster from FC4 to FC5, and I know that I have
> > a lot of services starting up. But with me, I do not boot that often,
> > and when I do, i generally walk away (except for when I am busy, or
> > botting the first few times).
> >
> > But tell me, what makes fast booting important to you? I ask because I
> > often wonder if people really need fast booting or something else? I
> > believe some are just over impatient, no idea if that in any way
> > applies to you.
> >
> > Peace
> >
> >
> > --
> > As a boy I jumped through Windows, as a man I play with Penguins.
> I shutdown my box when I stop working on it, leaving it on is a waste of
> power (an money).
> When I boot it again (sometimes for simple tasks like prinitng a file).
> Its anoying to wait ages before I can do my work, for longer work it
> does not really matter, but booting faster would'nt hurt.
> Same is for laptop users, they want to open their laptops and start
> working... without waiting some minutes before they can start working.
> You can say just suspend your boxes...
> The problem is that it does not work on all hardware (for me after
> suspend network is dead, #187653)
> FC4 would have booted faster for you if you had enabled early-login.[1]
> [1]: if you don't have any nfs mounted dirs.


Ok, fair enough.

--
As a boy I jumped through Windows, as a man I play with Penguins.
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