faster boot -- radical solutions?

[Matt Price]

On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 12:25:40PM -0400, Ivan Avery Frey wrote:
> Matt Price wrote:
> >Ho folks,
> >
> > some time ago I remember seeing a story about a Japanese computer 
> > scientist
> >who had gotten linux boot times down to somehting very short -- 10 or 20
> >seconds I think, on a medium-range machine.  So today I was trying to ifnd
> >that article again, and couldn'treally; however I did noticel ots of new
> >initiativesi n this direction, e.g.:
> 
> 
> Wouldn't a laptop and suspend to memory be better?
> 
> Which brings up another beef I have. Is there a desktop power supply whose 
> fans will shut off when the desktop goes into suspend to memory.

well, probably it is better.  I do also use suspend-to-disk sometimes, but
I'm worried about getting that working on the new machine I'm setting up (was
a bit of a hassle last time around).

I'd also be interested in your question about power supplies.  Can a
hibernate script be tweaked to send a fan-off signal via acpi?

matt

Matt


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