Slow startup in Mandrake 10.1 with custom kernel

[Guest sandeepkhanna]

Hi,

 

I am using a custom compiled 2.6.10 kernel with Mandrake 10.1. I observed that whenever I am using my own custom compiled kernel, I see a very slow startup. But, when I boot using Mandrake's kernel, the startup is relatively fast.

 

Upon weeks of observation and research, I narrowed down to 3 biggest bottlenecks in the startup.

 

1. During startup, after the system prints message "Entering non-interactive startup", the system waits for around 10-15 seconds before it prints out "Start udev". There is something more that the Mandrake kernel does which causes the "Start udev" to print much quicker/earlier than when using custom kernel.

 

2. During startup, If the ethernet cable is not plugged in, it times out quickly. But, if the wireless PCMCIA card is plugged in but unable to get signal, it takes a long time to timeout.

 

3. During startup, system prints out "Starting ALSA" and pauses for 3-5 seconds before printing out "Loading xxxx module" (loading card-specific ALSA module)

 

Does anyone have similar issues? Does anyone have any suggestions on these?

 

Thanks,

Sandeep Khanna

 

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[bvc]

How did you config? Use a default or previous .config?

 

Are you trying to trim it down for supposed speed? If so, compile about 50 more times watching and writting down the errors and fix them with each compile. You get a good compile eventually.

[Dyslexic]

I won't claim any expertise in this. I build my kernels from Mandrake sources just to avoid such problems. I would wildly speculate that something from initscripts is calling a module that is not in your kernel.

[Guest lemvigh]

Did you find a solution to your problem? I'm having the same problem, and that's with a system installed from the official iso's. No custom kernel compiling...