Related link: http://tree.celinuxforum.org/pubwiki/moin.cgi/BootupTimeResources
“The following are individual pages with information about various technologies relevant to improving bootup time for Linux. Some of these describe local patches available on this site. Others point off to projects or patches maintained elsewhere.”
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Related link: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/27/automobiles/27TAUB.html?ex=1256529600&en=d3663…
TODAY, you can go out and buy a car that can display television, park itself, display your email, and surf the web. But not in America - our cars have to stay dumb, blunt like safety scissors, lest we hurt ourselves and blame the manufacturer.
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Related link: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7857
This is the third and final article I wrote for linuxjournal documenting our quest for fast booting of our in-car CarBot computers.
After I finished writing the article, I was contacted by another person who said they got a 5 second boot time using linuxbios and our motherboard. Based our not-too-deep experiments, I believe we could achieve that; it’s a matter of having to do it for every new motherboard that we ship with that makes it a difficult proposition.
Anyway, the series of articles has a lot of good links relating to speeding up the booting process in Linux.
Earlier Articles:
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Related link:
http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/hpcpqdt/us/download/20306.html
I found a couple of links for creating bootable flash drives that I found useful.
How to boot from a USB device … has good instructions, and this worked for me, and took about 20 minutes.
Then I found this utility: HP bootable flash utility
And it worked for me as well, and took about a minute.
(old link: here)
The cool thing is, the HP utility is reported to work with many other flash drives - I have a no-name USB 2.0 thumb drive, made it bootable with the HP utility on a 1.1 USB bus, and then used it to boot a Via EPIA-M2 computer by setting the BIOS to “boot from USB hard drive”.
Although I’m quite comfortable with the command line and a 2 page FAQ, running a GUI and clicking “make bootable” sure speeds things up.
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