Other Help Topics :: suggestions for faster boot times requested

I'm looking to improve boot up time for my DSL system. Granted, I'm using a VIA 600mhz system, booting off of a USB stick, but the time from power-on to usability is right at 2 minutes.

I'm doing a restore, and I have about 2-3 myDSL items loaded. I've used the syslinux boot-time options of toram, no SCSI, pcmcia, etc.

I've read the topic at:
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....nd+boot
but I can't find the autoconfiguration file or where the heck to change it so that ld.so.cache isn't rebuilt.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,
Phillip

hmmm, 35 views and no responses.

that kind of viewage makes me think either:
1) people saw my question, and weren't able to help with it, or
2) people saw my question, and thought "what a dumb noob"

i'm praying it's not the second :blues:

I'm in the first category...I really don't know how to help much.

I assume it boots in the same manner as a liveCD, where it configures your hardware on every boot? If so, this would take a good portition of that time. I don't think there are many services starting automatically in DSL, which is the first thing I check to lower bootup time.

You could remove the "enhance" part of xinitrc to shave off a few seconds (and a few applications), or remove "startx" for .bash_profile to avoid loading the graphical system all together.

Apart from that, I don't know much...2 minutes doesn't sound bad for what DSL has to do during boot.

thanks for the reply mikshaw...

yeah, it's configuring on every boot. most of the time wasteage seems to happen loading linux24 and minirt24. guess it can't be helped.

thanks,
phillip

if you remaster (or look at the minirt.gz file) minirt, you will find inside the actual init. that is what you can edit to take time off of your bootup.

this process can be found on the forums (mounting the minirt, editing, saving)

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