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I'd really like to get my raspberry pi booting in a couple seconds. I have a few ideas for things I'd like to try but the boot time is too long. Don't need X11
by bmurphy1976 7y ago
I'd really like to get my raspberry pi booting in a couple seconds. I have a few ideas for things I'd like to try but the boot time is too long. Don't need X11 but I would like to use raspbian.
- voltagex_ 7y agoThe Pi 4 is definitely much faster on boot. I wonder how much of your bottleneck is the SD read speed, though.
- mallets 7y agoYes, I'm getting around 10-15 secs boot time for a headless raspbian. I'm sure it could be made even faster with a lightweight application specific distro.
- fmntf 7y agoIf you do not need the graphical stack, there is room for optimization both in kernel and user space. On a similar board (4 ARM cores) with Ubuntu I managed to start user space applications in <2 seconds (from power on) and the complete boot (including Xorg/MATE) in <10 seconds. If you are interested, on Medium I have some write-up (same username, last post).
- akx 7y agoA link to said write-up: https://medium.com/@fmntf/adapting-ubuntu-for-the-automotive-quick-boot-and-power-loss-resilience-74d25915250c https://medium.com/@fmntf/adapting-ubuntu-for-the-automotive...
- joezydeco 7y agoThink like an embedded developer. They’ve done a lot of work in this area. https://elinux.org/Boot_Time https://elinux.org/Boot_Time