Reason for my previous post was that I wanted to try improving my boottime with quick-init, that one can find from AUR. Installation of this script was straightforward with Yaourt. Although at first I thought that installation had somehow messed up my system when boot went to console instead of KDE. But this was only case of me not editing my inittab AND qinittab files to boot to desktop enviroment.
#id:3:initdefault: id:5:initdefault:#x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/xdm -nodaemon #x:5:respawn:/usr/sbin/gdm -nodaemon x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon #x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/slim >& /dev/null #x:5:respawn:/bin/su YOURUSER -l -c "/bin/bash --login -c xinit >/dev/null 2>&1"
My boot time from Grub to desktop went from 23s to 15s just by installing quick-init. I have to see into further improvements suggested at quick-init home page. It is shame though that it takes a while for my machine to get from press of power button to grub, so there is limit to how low I can get my boottime.
Here is my current bootchart.
Bootchart with quick-init
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Nice tutorial, this help me.
Now, my boot time Grub to desktop went from 19.5s to 13s
I am glad that it was as good to you as it was to me. I still want to find the time to look more into my boot time. But I think I will wait a bit until parts for my new machine arrive.
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