Hi i am currently working with a team to build a desktop distro. The one problem i face is slow boot up times, now they are not actually that slow but i know a lot of it is just 'time wasting.'

What i would like to do is make a module that after your first boot remembers all your hardware. This way next time you boot it wont have to load/scan for it all again.

Has this already been done? If so can you post a link, if not give some feedback and i'll try my hardest to get one working (may take quite a bit of time though )

Hi.

If you're using a recent kernel, then this shouldn't really be a problem. The old RedHat style 'kudzu' (don't know if SuSE or Mandriva use it or not) hardware-detection-at-init-scripts type thing is being phased out. I'm running Fedora 5 with kudzu switched off and haven't hit any problems, and the system boots pretty fast.

There are gains to be had from running init scripts in parallel:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerwork...ry/l-boot.html
but since new kernels will be using udev, I don't think there's any speed gain to be had from remembering the hardware config, since udev will have to be told about all the hardware anyway in order to set up devices, notify HAL/DBus etc.

Maybe you know something I don't, though...

Dave

No that sounds right... thanks for the post. I was un aware of that, must update my kernel.
Thanks.