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. Cheers, Amit Das.
On Friday 14 Oct 2005 10:24 am, amit453d 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. Cheers,
RAM?
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
RAM?
Booting to XP is fast so it does not look like the RAM.
Regards,
Rony.
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On 14/10/05 20:41 +0530, Rony Bill wrote:
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
RAM?
Booting to XP is fast so it does not look like the RAM.
Uh, no. XP showing a desktop to actually becoming usable can take quite some time. When a Linux desktop shows up, it is usable at that point.
Your suggestion about DHCP is a good one though. You can see a significant difference with 128 MB of RAM. Personally, I would recommend a minimum of 256 and preferably 512 MB of RAM. Maxing out the RAM on a PC is also a good idea.
Devdas Bhagat
On 10/14/05, Devdas Bhagat devdas@dvb.homelinux.org wrote:
On 14/10/05 20:41 +0530, Rony Bill wrote:
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
RAM?
Booting to XP is fast so it does not look like the RAM.
Uh, no. XP showing a desktop to actually becoming usable can take quite some time. When a Linux desktop shows up, it is usable at that point.
Your suggestion about DHCP is a good one though. You can see a significant difference with 128 MB of RAM. Personally, I would recommend a minimum of 256 and preferably 512 MB of RAM. Maxing out the RAM on a PC is also a good idea.
Devdas Bhagat
I have debian and 512 MB RAM. I use MTNL triBand with ethernet port => DHCP is used and there is no problem of boot-up delay. IMHO therefore DHCP is not the culprit. Regards, Mohan S N
P.S.: I am a rookie so take things with a pinch of salt.
On Friday 14 Oct 2005 8:41 pm, Rony Bill wrote:
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
RAM?
Booting to XP is fast so it does not look like the RAM.
how much RAM?
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.
Try to stop the unwanted services which starts during the booting process...
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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.
amit453d 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. Cheers, Amit Das.
Is your RHEL trying to configure some device like....say....eth0? If you set it to dhcp and there is nothing connected, it may wait to find a dhcp server or you got a lan active and its not setup for linux???? Turn sendmail service off too. It is not needed. Find out the exact device/program where it takes time to load during bootup. If its not needed, get it off.
Regards,
Rony.
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