How to speed up Sabayon boot

vikrang · 02-14-2011, 05:13 AM

I have a rather old pentium with 512 MB RAM..Till Sabayon 5.3 , it was loading okay...Now When I try to boot the live CD of 5.5 (KDE) , the system simply takes a walk. I have to press the off button as it takes ages to even show the startup screen ...

It stops at this stage

"Waiting to start the Graphical configurator..."

coralfang · 02-14-2011, 12:07 PM

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"Waiting to start the Graphical configurator..."

If i remember, that message in sabayon means its about to start your gdm/kdm login.
You could try disabling it from autostarting (boot into a tty console). Or in your case with the livecd boot into console mode, and try manually running `startx' from there.

Worth a try.

corp769 · 02-14-2011, 12:11 PM

Or you can change the default init level to 3, and manually init to 5. That's what I do on my laptop.

vikrang · 02-17-2011, 01:36 AM

Dear Corp769- Can you pl expand how you did it ? (Changing default init level) and booting from initlevel 5 manually

corp769 · 02-17-2011, 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by vikrang

Dear Corp769- Can you pl expand how you did it ? (Changing default init level) and booting from initlevel 5 manually

Edit /etc/inittab and change the runlevel from 5 to 3. That is all it takes. After you modify your inittab, each time you power up, you need to manually type init 5 to take you to your X server. Enjoy.