Boot Linux In 25 Seconds!
Everyone wants a quick boot time, from the beginner user to the advanced user, this is a issue that bothers us all. As Linux has advanced it has increasingly become slower to boot. I have tested on my machine 4 Linux distributions: Linspire, Fedora 3 & 4, Suse 9.2 & 9.3, and Debian. And on average between all these distributions Linux needs around a minute to 1 and half minutes to go from boot loader to graphical login screen. So I decided to look into reducing the time it takes to boot my current setup, which is Fedora 4. In doing so I was able to reduce the boot time of my Fedora 4 installation to less than 25 seconds (just above 24 seconds on average). Below I have documented what I did, and what you can use to potentially reduce your boot up time for Linux.
Of course we will be dealing with advanced Linux know how, so this is not for beginners. Also results may vary on your end since there are a lot of factors involved.
I have just installed Fedora on an old sony notebook. So, I might try a few of these tweaks to speed up the boot up times. I am still thinking through whether I leave Fedora on the notebook, or put on windows 2000.
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August 2nd, 2005 at 12:16 am
Dear author.
You have done a marvelous bit of research to achieve what you did, and I commend you for it. But… I am not concerned about the boot time, unless it is for my palm pilot.
Again, I appreciate the effort that you, the author took, to achieve this improvement, but so what, is my comment. Does Linux run faster once loaded?. Did you find a code rearrangement that makes lunix run faster? Did you recompile for a specific processor?
Personnally, give me something that makes linux perform better. Tell me which file system to use, where, and why. Tell me if I can dynamically move from file system to file system if that will improve program or data load or write times. Tell me that by re-arranging the linux modules linked together, that I can reduce linux’s system paging. That is what is of interest to me.
I am a newbie and am impressed with my one experience with linux (fedora core4). I cannot compare distributions, and am too new to know if I can dual boot from one distribution to another. So I am asking about tuning exercises.