Anton Aylward wrote:
There a lot of customization options if you are willing to explore and experiment.
More to the point, if you do a 'standard' install from the DVD you'll have a system on which you have a non-zero initrd, can run lsinitrd, can customise the dracut config for when you rebuild the kernel ...
---- I didn't want to customize things. I just wanted a working system to come up and go from there.
Many of us work to shrink out initrd and make systems load faster and all that.
--- I did that too on my main system. Shrunk it to size=0. It boots in about 10-15 seconds (not an SSD).
My system boots in a little less, then spends about 20 seconds setting up KDE with Thunderbird, Firefox, a few Konsoles and Dolphin.
---- Um, I'm talking booting to login w/all services started.
Of the 20 or so seconds, nearly 8 seconds is taken by LVM initialization and "settling". I'm sure if I was using SSD instead of rotating rust many of the figures such as that, the initial FSCK of the partitions would be reduced.
That 10-15s includes mounting of LVM-based volumes of about about 20-30TB of storage. All of it is 'rotating rust' as you phrase it, w/99% of it being 7.2K SATA's.
What I'm saying, Linda, is that starting from a plain DVD install, tweaking the build of the initrd using dracut.conf, I can do as well or almost as well as your times when I boot my desktop every morning, without the pain sweat and anguish you are going though.
---- I've never tweaked or built an initrd. It's not something I've ever really needed. On top of that, your boot times are over twice as slow, as my boot times include lvm and all services. Never been locked out of my system, yet, but first time I try 'your way', I'm locked out by sysd. I may use sysd, but it can't stay as 'init', as it isn't trustworthy or reliable. Maybe I'll try leap next time. BTW, most of the pain sweat and anguish came from you. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org