Fastest Booting Kernel?


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I have a linux I am using in an embedded environment, and it works nicely;

however, I require that it starts up MUCH faster than it does...

So far, I've stripped practically everything from the 2.6 kernel, and it still is not fast enough.

Is the 2.4 kernel a faster booter?

2.2 ?

And is their anything else I can do to make this startup faster?

edit: btw, yes, I thought about just using a suspend feature, but, its not possible, as energy consumption is too high

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Here is an article from Sept. 2003 (so it would be on 2.4 kernel) which gets an embedded Linux boot time to under 200msec.

Sounds plenty fast to me! ;)

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err.. what do you mean HERE is the article... did you forget to post the link... :p

:pinch: :pinch: :pinch:

here

:whistle:

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Even though I did not like Mandrake 10.0 too well, it did load somewhat faster than its predecessors and Mandrake 10 has Kernel 2.6.3. That loading took between a minute and a half to about two minutes, but that's because Mandrake loads up a lot of crud on startup. Slackware 9.1 loads fast enough for me (Kernel 2.4.22) in a little over one minute on the Sparrow system requirements indicated in my sig. As for loading on Kernel 2.6, I could not tell you because I don't have the time to test it at this present time.

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Another minute for X? Which distro are you using and what are your computer specs? It took only 15 - 25 seconds to load up KDE on my system and less if it was another window manager, even GNOME.

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