Re: How to enable DMA at boot time

[Clive Standbridge <nobody@i.love.spam>]

On Wed 27 Nov 2002 14:09:12 +0000(-0600), Shyamal Prasad wrote:

> Personally, I use a script. I installed the hwtools package and edited
> /etc/init.d/hwtools to do the right hdparm commands.

Okay, that approach works for me. It's also cut my boot time (LILO prompt to GDM prompt) from 83s to 72s.

I'm still curious about the kernel parameter approach. Since the hwtools script runs fairly late in the boot sequence, I guess that a more dramatic reduction in boot time should be possible. I'll return to that on another day.

Thanks to Charlie, Pigeon and Shyamal for your help.

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Cheers,
Clive