Speeding up boot time?

[Chris Smart]

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 2:57 PM, g <geleem at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> run "lsmod" to see all the modules loaded, many of which you do not need
> because fedora, like most all linux distribs is written to be 'universal'.
> that is 'one shoe fits all'.
>
> in so doing, there are many modules loaded that you do not need.
>

True, but I would have thought with udev these days, I should only
have modules that my system detects hardware for. Although, I'm sure
there are some I could take out.

>
> also, you can rebuild kernel with what you need to help speed up boot.
>

I wasn't going to bother going to the extreme of building and
maintaining my own kernel, but thanks for the suggestion! :-)

-c