einit: From GRUB to X in 10 seconds on Gentoo

http://einit.org/

see bootchart for details: http://skanda07.vdl.pl/squeaky/bootchart.png

eINIT is a replacement for /sbin/init -- the programme that is responsible for booting your computer -- that is all about not wasting resources

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• linux
• gentoo

[AngeredKabar]

Jeez you even have the nvidia driver.

I've never had any luck building a snappy gentoo system.

Are you parralelizing some boot up services?

[fizz300486]

@AngeredKabar  einit does paralelize by default

[emshains]

I hate to double post, but if I mess up, while setting this up, will I be able to recover quickly ?

[fizz300486]

You probably could but as I stated earlier I dont know in what stage of development einit now is. Consult #kyuba on Freenode IRC server. To do this you would simply setup einit and use it instead of standard init program. If you mess up something you can always alter your grub kernel settings when booting reverting to previous init.

[seqizz]

what about Option "NoLogo" "true" in xorg.conf. it can pass the nvidia logo.

[fizz300486]

It actually wont make things happen faster.

[munk666tlen]

In 0:06 you start booting the kernel form Grub, and in 0:26 you have *dm running. It's 20 seconds, not 10. Still it's pretty fast :)

[KernelLinux1979]

Disable that nvidia logo...

[scottp45]

@kingcrimson234 Lies. It may have seemed like 7 seconds, but not on a conventional Hard Disk, ti's just not possible.

[AngeredKabar]

@autonomous2010 All binary distros have precompiled binaries. The benifit with gentoo is that it's a "built from source" distro, so you can pass various optimization options to the compiler at build time so that if you know what you're doing it will run as fast as your individual hardware will let it.

[kingcrimson234]

pretty quick boot there, nice!

my Pentium 4 @ 3.4 GHz with a SATA2 drive went from boot loader to Windows XP desktop in 7 seconds on a fresh install though back when i used it. :)

[autonomous2010]

I have an old P4 1.8 GHZ CPU with 1GB of Ram and Ubuntu takes around 2 minutes to boot.

I don't use ubuntu anymore though.

Gentoo precompiles every package for your machine so that makes it a TON faster then any other linux distro.

With gentoo it took about 18 seconds to boot up.

[emshains]

Hey, could I make this work for ubuntu 8.04 ? 'cause it takes like 2-3 minutes to boot, and it is quite slow, even for my old 1.6ghz/768mb of ram crapbox.