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Posted: July 17 2007,10:14 QUOTE
Thanks, will try DMA (didnt know it will work for USB)

One other thing, why not just shove the whole rootfs in the initrc and have everything loaded from linuxrc?
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Posted: July 17 2007,10:20 QUOTE
Well, that's the initrd version, but not all wish everything loaded to ram..

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Posted: July 17 2007,11:35 QUOTE
Oh, yes, right, sorry

DMA doesnt do much?

What component does the actual initrd loading? Kernel?
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Posted: July 17 2007,13:52 QUOTE
Bootloader (probably syslinux)

I wasn't sure if dma would have any effect on usb, but it's good to have..

If you add these boot codes: "base norestore" it won't check for extensions and you get another second off..

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Posted: July 17 2007,14:45 QUOTE
If you really want to boot faster, you could change the initrd system -- some have used alternative ones noted for their speed.

Did you use nousb?  USB probing take a while... and I find it's quicker to manually load what you want after boot, if you know what hardware you have - I know you're booting off an usb stick, but because you're using the bootloader will load everything onto memory first.  Also, similarily, it won't matter if you boot with dma or not.
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