Improving Slackware Boot Time

Booting Slackware may be slow compared to another operating systems. This tutorial is based on Slackware 14.1.

DHCP

Slackware waits for a DHCP response on boot. Look for the following lines

echo "/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1:  /sbin/dhcpcd -t ${DHCP_TIMEOUT[$i]:-10} ${DHCP_OPTIONS} ${1}" | $LOGGER
/sbin/dhcpcd -t {$DHCP_TIMEOUT[$i]: -10 ${DHCP_OPTIONS} ${1}

and just add a & on the end of the last line:

echo "/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1:  /sbin/dhcpcd -t ${DHCP_TIMEOUT[$i]:-10} ${DHCP_OPTIONS} ${1}" | $LOGGER
/sbin/dhcpcd -t {$DHCP_TIMEOUT[$i]: -10 ${DHCP_OPTIONS} ${1} &

bzImage Loading

If the message:

Loading Linux ..........

takes too long, the solution can be adding the compact parameter on /etc/lilo.conf:

# Start LILO global section
# Append any additional kernel parameters:
append="vt.default_utf8=1 resume=/dev/sda7
boot = /dev/sda
compact

Maybe there's already this parameter commented out, with another comment saying it will be faster, but won't work on all systems.

Don't forget to run the lilo command to modifications take place:

# lilo

External Links

• Slackware Tips, by Brent W. Woodruff.

Revision History

Post built on: 2014-01-15 21:32:28
Last modified on: 2014-01-15 21:30:24
First published on: 2014-01-14

Revision	Date	Description
1.00	2014-01-14	Initial revision. Published.
1.01	2014-01-15	Adding new "syntax" for code examples.