[svlug] short linux boot time

[Robert Hajime Lanning]

You will want your filesystems to be small and journaled.
Then, as X does not have any dependancies outside of the filesystems,
unless you authenticate to the network in some way, you can start
your display manager as soon as your filesystems are mounted.

To do this, you will need to extract the filesystem rc startup routines
from the current boot rc scripts and have them as a seperate entry
at the top of your /etc/inittab.  Then followed by the display
manager startup. Followed by the rest of the boot of needed services.

<quote who="Wang Xiangzhou">
> Hi,
>
> I am working on Linux appliances and need short boot time (as short as
> possible). I plan to have a full version of Linux, such as Suse, as
> well as standard commodity hardware.
>
> I need to bring X-window up, the rest can be brought up late. So what
> can  the shortest boot time be by changing the boot process, 5 sec? 10
> sec?

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