Tinkering with debian boot process

Zmyrgel · 09-19-2006, 12:18 PM

Ok, I'm a new debian user. I've tested it few times before and run ubuntu time or two but I've never troughly used them.

I have installed debian on my laptop with encrypted lvm-partitions so obviously I use inird in booting. (Will try to change this to initramfs soon).

I have few problems with the boot process. First of all, it will prompt me a passphrase during boot to decrypt my partitions. The thing is that it will print few booting messages after the prompt which makes it a bit ugly. So how can I get rid of these messages in a 'smart way'?
It printed messages about my mouse, Synaptics driver and usb-hardrive after prompting luks passphrase.

Second is that when mounting my reiserfs partitions it will make a 5 long lines for every partition mounted. Could this be reduced somehow?

I modified the variable 'verbose' to 'no' in /etc/default/rcS which helped a bit but more is needed.

I would also take suggestions on how to speed up the booting time as other distros I've used I got a pretty fast boot (gentoo, slack). I liked the ubuntu boot process so tinkering debian to be more like it would be nice.

Ideas about on how to add splash to initrd with yaird are also welcome.

Zmyrgel · 09-21-2006, 12:29 PM

Okay, I got a lot more cleaner boot by appending the 'quiet' boot parameter.

Now the problem is the following:

Code:

hda_intel: azx_get_response timeout, switching to single_cmd mode

The boot waits on that for several seconds which is quite annoying.

Also, if you have idea to how to tinker the udev to clean these off:

Code:

udevd-event[2081]: run_program: exec of program '/usr/share/usbmount/usbmount' failed

I got several messages of the above so it would be quite nicer looking without them.

Zmyrgel · 09-24-2006, 11:15 AM

Okay, now my bash is giving me notification

Code:

bash: no job control in this shell

How can I enable it again?

blackhole54 · 09-24-2006, 11:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zmyrgel

How can I enable it [job control] again?

Code:

set -m

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Zmyrgel · 09-25-2006, 03:04 AM

Ah, does it remember that setting after reboot or do I have to add that into the bash scripts?

blackhole54 · 09-25-2006, 12:55 PM

That goes in the bash script. See the bash man page for more info.