On Friday 14 October 2005 02:15 PM, Senthil Kumaran wrote:
Hi all, I have loaded the winXp SP2 and RHEL WS 4.0 dual booting using grub, problem is booting to linux takes 15-20 minutes. Booting to WinXP and coming out of linux is fast. motherboard is 915 GAV. I would like to know whether this is normal for RHEL WS 4.0 booting or there is some problem. If so kindly help me out.
Hello Senthil,
There should be lot of problem of slow booting. Ram, Services, Unwanted modules, check /etc/modules file, initrd, also depends on your hardware lot of thigs.....
Tips & Trick
I don't know what is your problem without seeing bootup screen, which service you are running, how much ram u have, which modules you are loading etc..... But there is simple hack for all Linux distro which will help you to start you linux much faster than now. Open /etc/init.d/rc file.
vi /etc/init.d/rc
Check below line in your distro file(Mine is Debian) startup $i start
Edit this line and put simpel '&' at the end of line
startup $i start &
This will start all your process in background. Caution: It will not give you gurantee that every process is started. Service will not check it's dependency for other processes. But if you are running for desktop pc. Then it will be ok.