[ltp] new thinkpad for me

[Tino Keitel]

On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 09:54:18 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sat, 07 Feb 2009, jnjb wrote:
> > i have now replace my x24 by an good x32, it work very well but i want  
> > try to reduce boot time a little like netbooks but not so fast boot, if  
> > someone have ideas for do it. I have try to use fastinit but it dont  
> > work whith me.
> 
> I managed it on a T43 with Debian Lenny, so yes, it *really* should work on
> the X32 as well.
> 
> Here's what you need to do:
> 
> 1. Compile your own kernel.  2.6.27 is a damn good choice right now
> (because it is going to be maintained for a very long time).  Debian
> has tools to make it dead simple to create .deb kernel packages, see
> package kernel-package and the utility make-kpkg.  I think there are
> HOWTOs in debian-administration.org.

For a fast bootup, 2.6.28 might be an even better choice, because it
comes with "fastboot", which tries to find the root partition as fast
as possible to start init as early as possible. YMMV, but on my desktop
(Mac mini) it saves more than 10 seconds compared to 2.6.27.

Regards,
Tino