Alfred Zastrow a ?crit : > Laurence Abbott schrieb: > >> On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 17:33 +0200, Alfred Zastrow wrote: >> >>> My vdr-system has the whole vdr/glibc/bin/modules-things in a initrd >>> ram disc which is loaded by the bios together with the kernel. >>> Boot time (after bios-checks) is < 10 seconds to see a picture and >>> about 20 seconds until the system is ready to replay/record on a >>> Duron 1300 board. >> >> That sounds interesting. Can you post any more details or links to how >> to set this up? > > You can find an outdated version on http://www.zastrow4u.de/ which can > boot from a CD. Study how it works. > > My actually version has *even* the ide-drivers included as kernel > modules, which are loaded _after_ vdr is up and running. Setting up such > a system is nothing for novice linuxer's. Therefore I can not spend any > support, because the whole system is very hardware specific and mistakes > often results in poorly booted systems without access to the drive... Did you test different boot-time of standard stripped-down distros, before setting this up, or did you go straight there because there is no hope to significantly reduce the boot-time (read "time before live-view"). Said otherwise : what is the cost of the lasts seconds saved on booting, and is it worth the effort for us average hackers ? IIRC, a base install of a standard Debian boots in 15 seconds (from the BIOS to the prompt, VIA C3 1Ghz). You have quite nothing for this time, but it is still really low. -- NH
