From owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 5 17:46:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DB0C16A4DE for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2006 17:46:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from phocking@no-wire.net) Received: from mail.dryanta.com (dryanta.com [65.39.221.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A02A543D60 for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2006 17:46:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from phocking@no-wire.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.dryanta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B923E5C75 for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2006 10:46:41 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mail.no-wire.net Received: from mail.dryanta.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (www.dryanta.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 6e4oKMBB4+Az for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2006 10:46:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.103] (c-67-181-212-87.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.181.212.87]) by mail.dryanta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 612735C69 for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2006 10:46:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <44D4D962.5000408@no-wire.net> Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 10:46:10 -0700 From: Phill Hocking User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Macintosh/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org References: <200608040821.54035.rmiranda@digitalrelay.ca> <44D3A209.60607@no-wire.net> <200608051131.16083.rmiranda@digitalrelay.ca> In-Reply-To: <200608051131.16083.rmiranda@digitalrelay.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Boot Time with Nanobsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-small@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Dedicated and Embedded Systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 17:46:10 -0000 Roger Miranda (Digital Relay) wrote: > On a personal level, i'm sorry for being a newbie to customizing freebsd. I've > used for quite a while, but just as a desktop. > > The company I work for now, work at creating customized network appliances. > I'm just trying to grasp the concept so many i can move up in the company. > > But I really do appreciate the help. > Thank You, > Roger > > On Friday 04 August 2006 14:37, you wrote: > >> Roger Miranda (Digital Relay) wrote: >> >>> Good Day Everyone, >>> >>> I finally got Nanobsd up and running, and have done some customizations >>> to it's kernel and have added some packages. >>> >>> The one small issue I had from the start was the time it took for nanobsd >>> to start up. It just sits there with the cursor on the screen for almost >>> 30seconds. >>> >>> Any ideas? Can this be fixed? >>> >>> Thanks for all your help. >>> >>> Roger >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-small@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-small >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-small-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> >> You aren't really familiar with linux/unix are you? I suppose you could >> see if DOS would be quicker for your application. Anyhow, take every >> device driver that is not necessary out of your kernel config file. I >> imagine you are using GENERIC, which has twenty different RAID drivers >> and fifteen different Ethernet chipsets. Most embedded systems take >> between 30s and 1min to get booted, in that sense it is just like a >> standard pc. Hell my 400mhz mips (probably 2-3x faster than your board) >> MikroTik 532 takes 25 seconds or so to get booted up, and RouterOS is >> only 7mb. >> > > I wasn't trying to be an asshat dude; I'm merely suggesting in a respectful way to get a basic backgrounder on configuring kernels, performance tuning, cruft cutting, and port monkeying before you dive in head-first to embedded stuff. If you managed to compile a kernel and get it onto the device you are ahead of the curve. Now read the Handbook until your eyes bleed. :D -- Phillip Hocking Director of Operations Network Engineer No-Wire Communications phocking@no-wire.net www.no-wire.net