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Re: [gNewSense-users] Boot speed
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Lars Noodén |
Subject: |
Re: [gNewSense-users] Boot speed |
Date: |
Sun, 07 Oct 2012 14:48:28 +0300 |
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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