very common kernel modules slow down the boot process
Harald Hoyer
harald at redhat.com
Wed Apr 2 04:49:51 UTC 2008
Andrew Farris wrote:
> Harald Hoyer wrote:
>> Compiling these modules, which are loaded on nearly every PC, in the
>> kernel cuts down my boot time from 42s to 32s on my computer:
>
>> floppy
>
> I was going to suggest you might want to leave that one out, since I
> wouldn't think its that common anymore... then I checked, and this is
> loaded on my machine which has no floppy.
>
# echo "blacklist floppy" >> /etc/modprobe.conf
or even
# echo "install floppy /bin/true" >> /etc/modprobe.conf
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