faster bootup by not scanning for hardware changes?

[Peter Teuben]

there is also an 'early-login' method to speed up your boot. Here's a website 
how somebody used a bootchart (neat graphics) to figure out where the delays 
went:
 	http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/Boot_Linux_In_25_Seconds_
or
 	http://www.improvedsource.com/view.php/Linux-System/2/

Another thing to look out for is the linuxbios (slightly technical)
 	http://www.linuxbios.org/index.php/Main_Page

peter


On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, Jacques B. wrote:

>> Well I just go:
>>
>>         chkconfig --level 2345 kudzu off
>>
>> Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> DoD#743
>> http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/
>
> Thanks Cameron.  That did exactly what I was looking to do.  But it
> had minimal impact on bootup time.  Actually when I re-enabled it and
> viewed the verbrose bootup process (rather than the GUI with the timer
> bar) I noticed that scanning for hardware changes takes very little
> time (a maybe a second).  The performance gain isn't worth it, so I'll
> leave it enabled just to keep it simple in the event I add something
> down the road and forget how to renable kudzu.
>
> But it's a good command to know.  Glad I found out about it.  I've
> been picking away at a script that captures live data from a Linux
> system prior to shutting it down (for a post mortem forensic analysis
> of it).  The output of this command with the --list option would be of
> value to capture.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jacques B.+
>
>