Booting takes long time (linux machine)

thiyagusham · 03-02-2014, 10:49 PM

Hi all ;

Recently i have seen one laptop.

Host/Guest Operating system.

OS version is : Oracle Enterprise linux 4.7

When booting the linux server , it takes atleast 20 - 30 mins. What was the problem ? How can i resolve it ?

FYI : When installing linux os , they never allocated /boot area size. So i think space is not sufficient to boot linux machine.

Please provide some relative info to resolve this problem.

1) can i increase /boot area size ?

jdkaye · 03-03-2014, 02:12 AM

Is this what you want? http://www.oracle.com/us/technologie...iew/index.html

Quote:

Oracle Linux Support
Enterprise-Class, Low-Cost Support for Linux

Oracle Linux leverages Oracle’s world-class support infrastructure to offer 24/7 Linux support in 145 countries worldwide.

I think you have to pay for this.
jdk

thiyagusham · 03-03-2014, 03:38 AM

@ jdkaye

This is personal laptop issue. Only for learning purpose.
As a linux user , how can i solve this problem ?

Can i resize /boot area ?

chrism01 · 03-03-2014, 04:23 AM

First, run

Code:

df -h

so we can see what you've got, possibly

Code:

fdisk -l

as well (btw, that's a lowercase L there).

Also, that is a very old distro (basically Oracle rebuild of RHEL, with the same version nums).
See here for why http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/

jdkaye · 03-03-2014, 05:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thiyagusham

@ jdkaye

This is personal laptop issue. Only for learning purpose.
As a linux user , how can i solve this problem ?

Can i resize /boot area ?

Why use Oracle Enterprise for learning? Is there a reason not to use CentOs? You can get free support from the CentOs community forums.
jsk