From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] NIC not detected after Kernel upgrade
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:05:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090218120532.6cc16d82@krikkit> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3ac129340902180259w686d0115oe0007e39aa91e5ad@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:59:38 +0900, daid kahl wrote:
> I'm pretty sure the kernels used for LiveCDs are absolutely huge because
> they just assume you have basically every piece of hardware available,
> and thus take much longer to boot (comparing a LiveCD on my machine to
> my kernel, maybe 4 to 5 times longer).
The kernel itself isn't that large, all the drivers are compiled as
modules and anyneeded for booting are stuffed into an initrd.
The slow boot times are due to the whole filesystem being stored as a
compressed image on a slow medium.
--
Neil Bothwick
Obscenity is the crutch of inarticulate motherfuckers.
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-15 21:31 [gentoo-user] NIC not detected after Kernel upgrade Guillermo Garron
2009-02-15 21:40 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-02-15 21:52 ` Guillermo Garron
2009-02-16 17:36 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-02-18 0:38 ` Guillermo Garron
2009-02-15 21:50 ` Kenneth Prugh
2009-02-15 21:54 ` Guillermo Garron
2009-02-15 21:57 ` Guillermo Garron
2009-02-15 22:09 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-02-15 22:25 ` Guillermo Garron
2009-02-16 1:17 ` [gentoo-user] " Stroller
2009-02-16 2:07 ` Guillermo Garron
2009-02-16 17:40 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-02-18 0:40 ` Guillermo Garron
2009-02-18 1:06 ` Guillermo Garron
2009-02-18 10:59 ` daid kahl
2009-02-18 12:05 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2009-02-17 11:37 ` daid kahl
2009-02-18 0:36 ` Guillermo Garron
2009-02-18 7:59 ` Dale
2009-02-18 10:55 ` daid kahl
2009-02-18 14:26 ` Evgeniy Bushkov
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