HOWTO: Reducing boot time in Breezy using InitNG

[Manny C]

I'm going to try and install this after upgrading to Breezy this afternoon, but first a question or two:

1) What is Jackd and is it necessary? I don't see it being used on my current Hoary install even though the binary for it is installed.

2) What is coldplug? How/why is it different to hotplug?

3) Can I leave ACPI enabled? Is it likely to work? I'm on a laptop.


Thanks!

1) Dunno. Didn't need to fiddle with this. Sound works for me.
2) Dunno
3) Left it enabled on my laptop. Suspend to RAM works just as well as it did before INITNG.

[evs]

I've gotta ask. How many times do you reboot your Linux box that you really need to shave 30-40 seconds off the boot time?

"Why does anyone climb a mountain? Because it's there!"

"Incoming missile! Is the linux computer still rebooting? OMG! I knew I should have followed that InitNG thread!"

I usually boot up several times a day, considering it's a laptop. On a server, or even a workstation, I wouldn't be too concerned, especially since InitNG still needs some work. I can't wait to give this a try on my laptop though.

[Manny C]

I usually boot up several times a day, considering it's a laptop. On a server, or even a workstation, I wouldn't be too concerned, especially since InitNG still needs some work. I can't wait to give this a try on my laptop though.

Why do you need to boot up a laptop several times a day? Is ACPI not working for you?

[prasys]

xparrot

1. Dunno

2. coldplug is mainly used for to detect devices which are not hotplug (a good example of hotplug is USB thumbdrive , they get detected automaticly when you plug it and plug out. Mainly , you need coldplug to detect some devices in your lappie. Keep it on , don't try to disable it

3. Yeah of course you would. It depends , if your BIOS is blacklisted (thank god , there are few) then it should work

[skyboy]

Woo, works like a nice Formula 1 now, thanks.

[evs]

Why do you need to boot up a laptop several times a day? Is ACPI not working for you?

Pretty much. I fixed my DSDT so that I can get my battery status, and hibernate was working out of the box. Suspend to ram would suspend fine, but the screen stayed black after resuming, and when I tried to fix it, I broke hibernate as well. I don't care too much about hibernate because it took almost as long to resume as a fresh boot. But yes, if I could get suspend to work properly then I wouldn't be shutting my laptop down very much, although a faster boot would still be welcome.

[sailor420]

If I install this and it borks itself, would I be able to boot normally using the other Grub option, the one we clone the InitNG one from?

I'd love to try this out, but I just got done with a somewhat hairy dist-upgrade and am a little hesitant to tank my system

[sailor420]

And wireless doesn't start up automatically. I need to issue the following command after startup to get it working:

 sudo ifup eth1

and then it works. Will look at how to get this integrated in one of the .i files in a couple of weeks.

Is this working now? Wireless is my primary internet connection, so having to issue this everytime on boot is somewhat annoying

[joakim2]

Is this working now? Wireless is my primary internet connection, so having to issue this everytime on boot is somewhat annoying

I'd tend to say that if you're not a fiddler/tester/adventurous, initng is not for you right now. It takes a little patience getting it the way you want it in its current state.

[sailor420]

I don't mind tinkering; that's one of the things I like most about Linux. I just don't want to make my system unbootable since my Windows install isn't working at the moment