boot takes very long - about 25 secs

[Amedee @ Ubuntu]

On Sun, August 9, 2009 13:10, Siggy Brentrup wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 12:51 +0200, Amedee @ Ubuntu wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, August 9, 2009 05:49, Siggy Brentrup wrote:
>> > On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 01:32 -0400, Asif Iqbal wrote:
>> >> Hi I am looking for suggestions on faster boot.
>> >
>> > Why do you care?  I'm rebooting only when upgrading mandates,
>> > boot time is negligible for me.
>>
>> For me personally, boot times matter for netbooks, or more precisely:
>> anything based on the Intel Atom processor.
>
> I tend to use hibernate or sleep on my notebook,  netbook screens being
> way
> too small for my old eyes.

Then I would need a swap partition (not a swap file) that is at least the
same size of the RAM. In other words, I would have to sacrifice 1.5 GB of
my 8 GB flash disk. Unacceptable. Who needs swap anyway when you have so
much RAM? Who needs sleep/hibernate anyway when a cold boot takes just as
long? On a netbook. I'm not talking about laptops and desktops, where
sleep/hibernate makes sense.

>> And if you ever want a Linux that will be used in the automotive
>> industry,
>> you'd better have boot times of 2 seconds or less.
>
> You'd better improve realtime capabilities first although they have
> got better than they used to be even with rtai when I looked into it
> for a project.

I'm not talking about the computers that take care of the fuel intake of
the engine or other critical stuff. I'm talking about that other car
computer, for the radio, mp3 player, gps, dvd player for the kids in the
back seat,...

-- 
Amedee