Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 20:01:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 20:01:11 -0500 Received: from ip68-7-112-74.sd.sd.cox.net ([68.7.112.74]:8206 "EHLO clpanic.kennet.coplanar.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 20:00:54 -0500 Message-ID: <010b01c1dc3d$49125ae0$7e0aa8c0@bridge> From: "Jeremy Jackson" To: , "Alan Cox" Cc: In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: faster boots? Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 17:00:23 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Cox" Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 4:21 PM Subject: Re: faster boots? > > Is there some way of making the linux kernel boot faster? > > #1: Start less crap at boot time. Obvious but thats frequently most of > the issue. > > For Red Hat if your hardware set up is constant then rpm -e kudzu will do > no harm and avoid the grovelling through the box looking for new toys. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ rotfl, btw. oh my aching sides. I may have to quote that. reminds me of windows 95 hardware detection May I suggest chkconfig --level 2345 kudzu off, a less invasive way to achieve this, without burning bridges. /sbin/kudzu can still be run manually then, if the hardware does change and you're lazy (and you trust kudzu :) Jeremy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/