Quick-init - Boot your arch in 10 seconds

lowie82ph · 2010-06-22 16:01:14

will this still work with kernel 2.6.34 and xorg 1.8? anyone tried it yet?

thanks

madek · 2010-06-23 03:41:13

yes, actually have the kernel 2.6.34, xorg 1.8 and intel 2.9.11 driver and it's works fine

lilsirecho · 2010-07-01 15:36:38

A side issue:

Have installed 2010-05.iso onto a CF card with Kde4 included, firefox, vlc, gparted......

Boot time is ~18 secs

IncrediblePie · 2010-07-09 02:03:00

You might have already answered this, but manually adding a drive to fstab causes a crash when using qinit. What is the correct way to go about mounting additional drives at bootup?

demian · 2010-07-09 09:01:20

You could use udev. But since quick-init causes so many problems i can't understand why so many people want to use it.
An alternative would be to use a SSD.

Nicky726 · 2010-07-23 11:23:46

Saddly didn't work for me cause of encrypted root and other partitions on top of LVM. It failed on mounting key encrypted var, tmp, swap. Is there a way of getting it working with encrypted partitions? If not, it would be nice to mention at project home page/aur package page...

tidalf · 2010-07-26 20:21:38

Hi there,

Thanks for this script ! QuickInit works wonderfully there (2-3s from grub to awesome) :

the ahci.ignore_sss (thanks kwi) allow the 4 drives to spin up simultaneously (without it i was waiting 5 more seconds)
bootchartd is stopped at the end of the awesome rc.lua (awful.util.spawn("sudo /sbin/bootchartd stop"))

shemz · 2010-07-27 08:44:55

Wow that is awesome. 2 secs is magic . For me it takes 7 secs, and I am happy with it. But if I save 5 more secs, that would be great. Btw how do you start X, I am using inittab but with that X actually starts after reaching a tty and so I loose a few precious seconds .

tidalf · 2010-07-31 10:24:38

yup shemz.
I start X with nodm (launched by quick-init inittab) but that's an old abit, perhaps slim (packaged in the arch) should boot as fast.

Wyrm88 · 2010-09-22 12:51:02

I think it could be some 3-4 sec faster, if it weren't hanging at the prompt (I can't type anything at that moment, btw ). I guess its starting all the daemons at that time, but still wanted to ask for your opinion. Can I somehow get those 3-4 seconds?

MartinZ · 2010-10-06 04:06:08

Jedipottsy wrote:

i can't get this to work, on boot i the filesystem check fails, saying
/dev/sda2:
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is correupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternative superblock:
      e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
Im using ext4, so how can i modify the script to check for ext4 not ext2?
Thanks

Same here, but I think it happens because of GPT partitioning.

graysky · 2010-12-10 10:53:36

MartinZ wrote:

Same here, but I think it happens because of GPT partitioning.

Can anyone confirm that quick-init is not GPT friendly?

tuxfusion · 2010-12-15 20:41:29

adriano wrote:

soon with the stable version of kernel 2.6.32 quick-init will be really stable and supported
to mxforce
to increment more your boot on ssd you can try sreadahead on ssd with kernel26-fastboot
kernel26-fastboot
sreadahead

Hi, do you know a way to use https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Readahead-fedora as it does not need patched kernel ?
However it does not work for me yet. Some dude put up a version of quick-init with fedora readahead in AUR, but quickly abondened the package as everything else he puts up, it did not work for me .... -> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37879

algorythm · 2010-12-19 21:13:35

9 seconds is as fast as I can go. My disk usage is at the roof the whole time, which seems to be the bottle neck for my system (single 0,5TB HDD):

Last edited by algorythm (2010-12-19 21:26:16)

ying · 2010-12-21 10:08:11

tuxfusion wrote:

adriano wrote:
soon with the stable version of kernel 2.6.32 quick-init will be really stable and supported
to mxforce
to increment more your boot on ssd you can try sreadahead on ssd with kernel26-fastboot
kernel26-fastboot
sreadahead
Hi, do you know a way to use https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Readahead-fedora as it does not need patched kernel ?
However it does not work for me yet. Some dude put up a version of quick-init with fedora readahead in AUR, but quickly abondened the package as everything else he puts up, it did not work for me .... -> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37879

Sry dude. I disowned the package, because it isn`t any faster then my readahead-fedora package with normal initscripts. Try installing readahead-fedora (With normal initscripts) and reboot twice. It is quite fast for me. Maybe I will once try again quick-init in combination with readahead. But starting udev in the background + readahead had a lot of problems with my hardware (Tested it with 4 different computers) -> isn`t that stable.

Last edited by ying (2010-12-21 10:10:57)

tuxfusion · 2010-12-21 10:51:42

Ying, thx for clarifying ! I think i will just stick to quick-init alone then , my readahead attempts where not speeding up compared to it

ying · 2010-12-21 13:33:02

Did you do it how explained in the wiki and did you use the new readahead-fedora package with the edited xorg.conf? My boot is quite fast now.

Last edited by ying (2010-12-21 13:34:08)

MartinZ · 2010-12-24 20:44:10

ying wrote:

Did you do it how explained in the wiki and did you use the new readahead-fedora package with the edited xorg.conf? My boot is quite fast now.

Where is that new package? In AUR there is a more than 2 months old one, do you refer to that one?

tuxfusion · 2010-12-29 05:22:33

ying wrote:

Did you do it how explained in the wiki and did you use the new readahead-fedora package with the edited xorg.conf? My boot is quite fast now.

I don't know what wiki you refer to, neither : https://wiki.archlinux.de/title/Readahead-fedora , nor https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Readahead-fedora mention xorg.conf in any way.

Right now i might kick quick-init , as the pc now boots exactly as fast with redahead-fedora alone as it did with quick-init , 27secs finished gnome desktop

UPDATE:
Screw all this , fastest boot for my system is just simple plain arch init. 26 secs, readahead-fedora needs 2 secs more. I'll concentrate on usefull improvements like putting firefox in ramdisk for now

Last edited by tuxfusion (2010-12-31 02:50:56)

algorythm · 2011-01-03 16:35:45

(/etc/X11/)'xorg.conf' shouldn't even be used anymore. The directory '/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d' where you put _separate_ config files has replaced it since xorg-server 1.8.

Last edited by algorythm (2011-01-03 16:36:32)

Gusar · 2011-01-03 16:43:21

algorythm wrote:

(/etc/X11/)'xorg.conf' shouldn't even be used anymore.

Not true. It doesn't matter if you put your stuff in xorg.conf or in files in xorg.conf.d/, both work.

m4co · 2011-01-18 18:07:36

Hi Adriano!

Great work!

I'm trying to fast boot to X with [LINK="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Start_X_at_boot"]Start X at boot[/LINK]" with no avail.

I already tried in inittab:

x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/xdm -nodaemon

and

x:5:once:/bin/su username -l -c '/usr/bin/startx >/dev/null 2>&1'

Both of them doesn't work.

This following line works for me without quick-init:

x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/xdm -nodaemon

What am I missing?

Also, compressing the /usr folder, speeding up udev, does that decrease boot time with quick-init even more?

TigTex · 2011-01-18 19:53:52

Try this

x:5:respawn:/bin/su YOURUSER -l -c "/bin/bash --login -c xinit >/dev/null 2>&1"

Speedup udev helps a little bit more. Compressing the /usr, i don't know if it helps.

rohtie · 2011-03-24 13:27:55

Thanks!
It reduced boot time from 18 to 5 seconds!

Specs:
AMD Turion x2 TL-52 - 1.6 Ghz
ATI moblity radeon HD 2400 -128MB
RAM: 1024MB
HDD: 150 GB 5400 RPM

tuxfusion · 2011-03-24 19:34:13

rohtie wrote:

Thanks!
It reduced boot time from 18 to 5 seconds!
Specs:
AMD Turion x2 TL-52 - 1.6 Ghz
ATI moblity radeon HD 2400 -128MB
RAM: 1024MB
HDD: 150 GB 5400 RPM

would love to see any proof of those 5 sec

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