Speeding up Boot time

[tazno1]

Is there a way to speed up the boot time in mandriva 2006 I586 updated to Jan 27 06?
It takes 6-7 mins to boot.
I do have have IP set to auto, i know that can slows down a bit,
My board does have 2 nics.
But is other ways than having it set to assigned IP,
Is there other ways to speed things up other than assigning ips?

any help?

Thanks in advance!

System Specs
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30 Gig Drive Master (Winxp)
40 Gig Drive Slave (Mandriva 2006)
Athlon 64 3200+
Gig and a half of ram
Readon 92000 Video cared
GIGABYTE K8NS ULTRA-939 SKT939 AMD64 NFORCE3 BOARD

[oosterhouse]

You should be able to disable the graphical login screen..not sure though..never used mandriva.

[sabin]

Sorry I can't help you on this subject, however I can tell you this : this boot time is unnatural.

Between the moment I press "power" and the moment KDE has become operational, 2 minutes and thirty seconds have passed. No more than that.

Another friend with Mandriva and a much older computer : 3 minutes.
Another friend with a dream machine with awesome hardware (the bastard) : 2 minutes.

So for you, seven minutes isn't allright.
Check the log files in /var, maybe ?
Or during boot, simply press "esc" to see at what time the startup hangs for too long ?

[oz]

You'll need to experiment with it and disable any services you don't want to run, and perhaps even try some different hardware detection apps.

I don't run Mandriva so can't help much with it but can tell you that my Arch Linux installation is booting to a text prompt in 12 seconds, and add another 3 to 4 seconds for me to issue username / password / startx, and I'm fully booted into a graphical gui in about 15 to 16 seconds total. That's using the latest kernel, hwdetect, and udev. I've disabled and removed hotplug altogether.

HTH ...