Re: [gNewSense-users] Boot speed

[Lars Noodén]

On 10/7/12 2:44 PM, Michał Masłowski wrote:
>> First, during the installation it appears that it might be
>> necessary to choose mbr instead of gpt.  I tried several ways
>> using GPT but only got errors when trying to boot even when
>> booting manually via PMON.
> 
> True and often reported.
> 
>> Second, booting using boot.cfg is very slow.  Is there a way to
>> speed that up?  Here is the relevant part of boot.cfg
>> 
>> title gNewSense parkes - hda1 kernel
>> (wd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.3-gnu initrd
>> (wd0,0)/boot/initrd.img-3.5.3-gnu args console=tty no_auto_cmd
>> root=/dev/sda1 resume=/dev/sda5 libdata.force=80c machtype=8.9
> 
> Remove the initrd line.  It's not needed on the YeeLoong unless you
> have encrypted root, non-builtin filesystem or a more exotic
> configuration.
> 
Thanks.  Removing the initrd line lets it boot normally now.  I got it
from the installation instructions [1], so perhaps they should be updated.

Regards,
/Lars

[1]
http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Projects/GNewSenseToMIPS#PMON2000_Boot_file_.28boot.cfg.29