Mounir Bakkali wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I noticed something after buying several laptops. > With the same configuration/installation of Linux, the kernel boot time > is really different and it looks like that it depends on the architecture > and probably more about the hard disk. > > (When I talk about "kernel boot", I talk about these plots (like this > ---> ".........") > coming when Linux boots) > > I have a 7200rpm hard disk and it takes about 20-25 seconds just to > "print" that > plots. > The boot image is about 2.6MB and I guess that the image should be > loaded on > cache and then get executed but it looks like that it's loading while > executing. > > Does anyone knows how to accelerate that kernel boot up? Any idea? Have you turned off unnecessary services that start up during the boot process (printers, servers, etc.)? Try compiling a smaller kernel image and be sure to disable all unnecessary kernel options. William -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
