how to speed up the boot time?

taoweijia · 07-07-2004, 01:26 AM

hi

I have this linux box running as a display stand to public viewers, and I want to make the ugly boot screen ( detection, start demons...) as short as possible, each time the box starts with same configuration so there won't be necessary to do the same stuff all over again.
is there a way to minimize the boot time? or at least, make the booting screen all black? i mean viewers get a bit shocked when they see those Matrix styled messges showing on the screen.

thanks

marlor · 07-07-2004, 06:16 AM

by using slackware

no just kidding, well although slackware will be always faster then fedora, you might want to check out your boot up script and comment out (by putting a # in the beginning of the line) the programs you don't want to load at started

in slackware the path of it is etc/rc.d/rc.M, but i think in fedora it's something like etc/rc.conf or something like that

good luck

gkoutsog · 07-07-2004, 07:39 AM

Two ideas here.

A)Run command "setup" on terminal (make sure you are root) and then select "System Services" . Then deactivate those you dont need (and there are plent of those) , hit quit and you are done. The next time you should see about 10 services started...

B) How about that graphical boot that comes with fedora? FC2 graphical boot is good looking... Though I cant seem to remember how to activate it.

Good Luck!

belga · 07-07-2004, 07:50 AM

To activate the graphical boot in Fedora Core 2, make sure that your /etc/grub.conf looks something like this:

title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img

Good luck!

Bruce Hill · 07-07-2004, 08:01 AM

Not as easy as those, but recompile your kernel optimized for your system...

http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/K...ild-HOWTO.html