Disabling hardware detection

[Jacques B.]

I know you can disable hardware detection, but can't find how to do
it.  Once FC5 has properly booted up and recognized your existing
hardware (and hence the config files are ok) can you not disable
hardware detection to speed up booting?  If so, how is that done in
FC5?  I haven't added hardware in quite some time.  And if I do, I can
simply re-enable it.

Thanks,

Jacques B.

[Peter Gordon]

Jacques B. wrote:
>  I know you can disable hardware detection, but can't find how to
> do
>  it.  Once FC5 has properly booted up and recognized your existing
>  hardware (and hence the config files are ok) can you not disable
>  hardware detection to speed up booting?  If so, how is that done in
>  FC5?  I haven't added hardware in quite some time.  And if I do, I can
>  simply re-enable it. 
The kudzu service is what does this detection. You can disable it with the
graphical system-config-services tool, or via chkconfig as root.
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[Jacques B.]

>  The kudzu service is what does this detection. You can disable it
> with the
>  graphical system-config-services tool, or via chkconfig as root.
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Thanks Peter.  I knew I read it somewhere, and that was it (kudzu).
Couldn't find it in my archives or on the web.

Jacques B.

[James Wilkinson]

Jacques B. wrote:
>  I know you can disable hardware detection, but can't find how to
> do
>  it.  Once FC5 has properly booted up and recognized your existing
>  hardware (and hence the config files are ok) can you not disable
>  hardware detection to speed up booting? 
You should note that an increasing amount of hardware is *always*
detected and configured each boot-up (or whenever the kernel detects
it). For example, USB devices need to be configured and made available
when they are plugged in, so the same mechanism is used for configuring
them at boot time. This makes sure that they work the same way whether
they are connected when Fedora starts up, or if they are plugged in
later.

So for this hardware, you probably won't have config files.

I understand that kudzu does less than it used to, as more hardware is
moved to udev/HAL.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7745

James.

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[Jacques B.]

>  You should note that an increasing amount of hardware is *always*
>  detected and configured each boot-up (or whenever the kernel detects
>  it). For example, USB devices need to be configured and made available
>  when they are plugged in, so the same mechanism is used for configuring
>  them at boot time. This makes sure that they work the same way whether
>  they are connected when Fedora starts up, or if they are plugged in
>  later.
>
>  So for this hardware, you probably won't have config files.
>
>  I understand that kudzu does less than it used to, as more hardware is
>  moved to udev/HAL.
>
>  http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7745
>
>  James.
>
>  --> them at boot time. This makes sure that they work the same way whether
>  they are connected when Fedora starts up, or if they are plugged in
>  later.
>
>  So for this hardware, you probably won't have config files.
>
>  I understand that kudzu does less than it used to, as more hardware is
>  moved to udev/HAL.
>
>  http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7745
>
>  James. 
Thanks James.  I was looking to toy around with speeding up the boot
process a bit by removing needless steps such as checking for hardware
changes at bootup.

Regards thumb drive, I have one that is partitioned in two and FC5
tries to mount the physical device which fails, telling me I need to
be root.  Of course what needs to be mounted is the individual
partition, not the device.  I simply added myself in the sudo file to
allow my regular username to mount & umount.  I simply cancel the
error and then mount it from bash.

Thanks,

Jacques