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Topic: DSL efficiency, Boot checks

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Posted: June 29 2005,12:57

Can i speed up the DSL booting by killing boot checks, like all of the hardware recognition?, I dont need DSL to look for hardware on my computer, yet it does it every time I boot. Why cant it just store all of the data it finds and look that up each time insted of searching?

Can somebody help me because i don't even know where to start, has somebody allready figured out how to do this?, is it just a stupid idea?

I would be intrested in any other ways of speeding up the boot sequence.

cheers.

cbagger01

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Posted: June 29 2005,16:57

It can.

Stop knoppix-autoconfig from running.

Or add cheatcode:

nohwsetup

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Posted: June 30 2005,01:38

It may seem like a stupid question, but how do I run dsl commands (you know what I mean, cheatcodes, whatever) when I am running a HD install?, do I put them in the bootloader or something?

cbagger01

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Posted: June 30 2005,02:16

Yes.

You put them inside the "append" statement that is part of your bootloader config file.

Then you re-run your bootloader to activate your changes.

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Posted: June 30 2005,02:20

Cheers, but will this stop hardware configuration, or save the hardware configuration?

I'll give it a go anyway, lets hope it works

edit:

ok, it didnt break the OS (worst case scenerio), it seems to have sped it up a bit, cheers.

I have another compter running dsl on HDD and it has these problems:

-When you boot it asks you for a video mode (EVERY TIME)
-When it shuts down it allways gives an error because i dont have an sda5 plgged in to backup onto -i dont want it backing up anything its not on frugal!!

again, any help apperciated

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