[Debian-eeepc-devel] 5 second boot desktop with documentation

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Jelle,


Am Dienstag, den 23.06.2009, 19:56 +0200 schrieb Jelle de Jong:
> Jelle de Jong wrote:
> > The new kernel 2.6.30-1-686 came into Debian this last week and I got
> > the itches to do some fast boot testing. The result is still
> > disappointing for me, its still the same as a year back and the kernel
> > even got slower compared to 2.6.29-2-486 but there are some good points.
> > 
> > The parallel booting of script kind of works now. I added my results to
> > the wiki I hope that's ok:
> > http://wiki.debian.org/BootProcessSpeedup#Testsresultsofusers
> > 
> > purpose:
> > I build a lot of different linux systems, some just need fast bootup
> > like multimedia devices, easy internet devices, netbooks et cetera. one
> > of the requirements is maintainability and stability. I don't get
> > maintainability by recompiling my own software, so that is not an
> > option. What is an option is to tweak all the configuration systems I
> > can find, test them for stability and use them.
> > 
> > I use grub2 and it has no behavior like hiddenmenu, you can see three
> > flashes during boot before it comes to the steady "loading system" state.
> > 
> > result:
> > my boot process is around 5 á 6 seconds.

[…]

> So if we can fix the grub2 issues and make it cleaner and faster we can
> get some really nice desktop systems.
> 
> Am I the fist to hit the 5 second boundary without recompilation? :D

I am still amazed by your results. Almost three month have past since
you posted them and yesterday Linux kernel 2.6.31 was released and
DebPkg:readahead-fedora was packaged for Debian [1].

I would be very interested in getting your results with those changes,
if you have time.


Thanks,

Paul


> see all:
> http://wiki.debian.org/BootProcessSpeedup?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=bootchart21.png
> http://wiki.debian.org/BootProcessSpeedup?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=5-second-desktop-bootchart-v0.1.2j.tar.gz
> http://wiki.debian.org/BootProcessSpeedup#Testsresultsofusers


[1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-eeepc-devel/2009-August/002532.html
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