Hi fellow Amigans,
X1000 boot time is not much representative, I do remember there was a thread (on AW.net?) on how to shave off boot time.
I do remember most important find out to speed up boot was set pmu=A4 (switch to 1800Mhz), getting gfx card that initialize / change resolutions faster (any champ) and eventually commenting out kickstart file.
On first one, how to save it permanently.
Any more CFE related advices?
Surely, last step was most tricky and NOT advised by Hyperion, but e.g. there are always things that will never be used (Voodo, Sil controller etc.) and surely is adviced to backup original files, but saves both boot time and OS resources.
and last Amigan question, is there something that can be commented out from S:startup-seq,user startup, net startup?
x1000 advices - shaving off boot time
x1000 advices - shaving off boot time
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Re: x1000 advices - shaving off boot time
There is a bit of a hardware initialization wait until the CFE calls the boot routine for setup (which seems to occur once the USB goes active and powers the keyboard); there is an adjustable wait time for boot drive choice, then it loads the OS 4.1 kernel and finally starts the S:Startup-sequence. You can cut out the boot sound and a few other things, but time is lost getting an ip number. You can make a smaller kernel, but it may not decrease boot time. I'm not sure about resolutions, but editing the CFE will shorten boot time, the rest would cut milli seconds for the most part. This is only my opinion as a peon.
Re: x1000 advices - shaving off boot time
Thanks. Well, CFE can be software updated over time, so there I will change just boot speed and menu wait.danbeaver wrote:There is a bit of a hardware initialization wait until the CFE calls the boot routine for setup (which seems to occur once the USB goes active and powers the keyboard); there is an adjustable wait time for boot drive choice, then it loads the OS 4.1 kernel and finally starts the S:Startup-sequence. You can cut out the boot sound and a few other things, but time is lost getting an ip number. You can make a smaller kernel, but it may not decrease boot time. I'm not sure about resolutions, but editing the CFE will shorten boot time, the rest would cut milli seconds for the most part. This is only my opinion as a peon.
S:Startup-sequence is not worth of editing and can mess things quite a lot, so only left operation
is editing Kickstart
What surely I can edit out, no fear
;MODULE Kickstart/ATIRadeon.chip
;MODULE Kickstart/3DLabsPermedia2.chip
;MODULE Kickstart/3dfxVoodoo.chip
;MODULE Kickstart/sii3112ide.device.kmod
;MODULE Kickstart/sii3114ide.device.kmod
;MODULE Kickstart/sii3512ide.device.kmod
;MODULE Kickstart/sii0680ide.device.kmod
;MODULE Kickstart/lsi53c8xx.device.kmod
;MODULE Kickstart/it8212ide.device.kmod
Some more good advices:
cpu speed to 4, enter CFE, press F at the first menu.
Enter:
setenv -p STARTUP "set pmu -astate=4 ; menu"
Enter printenv to check it's correct
You might already have STARTUP set to "speed ; menu" in which case check the speed variable.
You can check all this in ranger in the hardware / firmware tab.
As for USB, it sounds like you have something weird connected that's taking a long time to initalise, USB only takes a second or so here. Try removing everything except the mouse and keyboard, reboot, add half the others back, reboot, remove them and add the other half etc... or if you don't have much commented just add one at a time.
@vox
There is a stripped down kicklayout file Here. Yes I know it's a lot bigger, it contain 3 kicklayouts instead of the standard 2.
If you have any problems booting enter CFE and type
setenv amigaboot_quiet N
Then
menu
You will see a second menu that lets you choose which kicklayout to use, hit space to stop the countdown then press the number for the 'Emergeny' entry.
This layout assumes you don't have an old radeon card fitted, if you do uncomment ATIRadeon.chip in the top section (never edit the bottom two and you are safe.
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Re: x1000 advices - shaving off boot time
Hi,
Everything to speed it up has already been done.
I already stripped the Kicklayout of stuff that X1000 will never use and set pmu to fastest CPU speed.
The only thing that takes the longest is USB startup. Not much that can be done about that.
Everything to speed it up has already been done.
I already stripped the Kicklayout of stuff that X1000 will never use and set pmu to fastest CPU speed.
The only thing that takes the longest is USB startup. Not much that can be done about that.
vox wrote:Thanks. Well, CFE can be software updated over time, so there I will change just boot speed and menu wait.danbeaver wrote:There is a bit of a hardware initialization wait until the CFE calls the boot routine for setup (which seems to occur once the USB goes active and powers the keyboard); there is an adjustable wait time for boot drive choice, then it loads the OS 4.1 kernel and finally starts the S:Startup-sequence. You can cut out the boot sound and a few other things, but time is lost getting an ip number. You can make a smaller kernel, but it may not decrease boot time. I'm not sure about resolutions, but editing the CFE will shorten boot time, the rest would cut milli seconds for the most part. This is only my opinion as a peon.
S:Startup-sequence is not worth of editing and can mess things quite a lot, so only left operation
is editing Kickstart
What surely I can edit out, no fear
;MODULE Kickstart/ATIRadeon.chip
;MODULE Kickstart/3DLabsPermedia2.chip
;MODULE Kickstart/3dfxVoodoo.chip
;MODULE Kickstart/sii3112ide.device.kmod
;MODULE Kickstart/sii3114ide.device.kmod
;MODULE Kickstart/sii3512ide.device.kmod
;MODULE Kickstart/sii0680ide.device.kmod
;MODULE Kickstart/lsi53c8xx.device.kmod
;MODULE Kickstart/it8212ide.device.kmod
Some more good advices:
cpu speed to 4, enter CFE, press F at the first menu.
Enter:
setenv -p STARTUP "set pmu -astate=4 ; menu"
Enter printenv to check it's correct
You might already have STARTUP set to "speed ; menu" in which case check the speed variable.
You can check all this in ranger in the hardware / firmware tab.
As for USB, it sounds like you have something weird connected that's taking a long time to initalise, USB only takes a second or so here. Try removing everything except the mouse and keyboard, reboot, add half the others back, reboot, remove them and add the other half etc... or if you don't have much commented just add one at a time.
@vox
There is a stripped down kicklayout file Here. Yes I know it's a lot bigger, it contain 3 kicklayouts instead of the standard 2.
If you have any problems booting enter CFE and type
setenv amigaboot_quiet N
Then
menu
You will see a second menu that lets you choose which kicklayout to use, hit space to stop the countdown then press the number for the 'Emergeny' entry.
This layout assumes you don't have an old radeon card fitted, if you do uncomment ATIRadeon.chip in the top section (never edit the bottom two and you are safe.
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Re: x1000 advices - shaving off boot time
Thanks Chris, yes you did, there was just Radeon 9250 and one more thing to comment out.Christopher Follett wrote:Hi,
Everything to speed it up has already been done.
I already stripped the Kicklayout of stuff that X1000 will never use and set pmu to fastest CPU speed.
The only thing that takes the longest is USB startup. Not much that can be done about that.
Setting PMU to A4 was a way more noticable boost
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