Re: faster boot

[Robert Giardalas <rgiard@zachariasoft.com>]

I had some preliminary modifications of the parallel loading system 
proposed by James Hunt from IBM working for Debian, but it looked like 
it would speed things up less than 10%, which wasn't enough to lure me 
away from SysV, so I said it aside.  I still have some of the files 
around, if you want 'em.  I don't subscribe to this list, though, so 
email me directly.

Z

> hello
>
> there has been a lot of interest lately on tecniques to obtain a 
faster boot; for example
>

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-boot.html
http://www.fefe.de/minit/
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0204.0/0674.html
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/rgooch/linux/boot-scripts/


> I would be delighted to have a faster boot: my boot times (excluding 
BIOS) are
> 60sec-90sec (using the ditributed kernel by Herbert XU), and this is 
very long
> (particularly for my Freevo-box)

> is anyone trying to implement the above in Debian?
> is anyone interested?


> a.