[Debian-eeepc-devel] 5 second boot

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| Phil Endecott, Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 05:19:12PM +0100 |=-
> I'm surprised that no-one here has yet mentioned Arjan van de Ven 
> and Auke Kok's work to get an Eee 901 to boot in 5 seconds:
> 
>       http://lwn.net/Articles/299483/
> 
> The slides from the talk are now available here:
> 
>       http://www.fenrus.org/plumbers_fastboot.ppt

> I'd be interested to hear what people think about this.  Do we agree 
> that improving the boot speed is a useful thing to do?

Sure it is!

My mobile phone boots for more than 5 seconds :)
18 seconds until it prompts me for the PIN, another 18 seconds until 
it shows the 'ready' screen (meanwhile entertaining me with Nokia, 
Vodafone and Debian banners :).
(yes, I don't reboot it that often so no much hassle).

> How much of this work can be applied easily to Debian?

Disabling udev would disable hot-plugging (i.e. an usb stick, or 
wireless card (via the hot key))

Removing any sevices you don't use would speed the boot too (I use 
apache2). Purging them would spare some additional milliseconds as the 
init script would be removed too (but you would lose any changes to 
their configuration).

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