Alfred Zastrow a écrit :
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You can find an outdated version on http://www.zastrow4u.de/ which can boot from a CD.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.