initng on fedora core 4

[cybrjackle]

First
1.) My laptop went from 1 minute and 20 seconds to 18 second boot up
2.) That's just

Second ****WARNING, don't use or use at your hacking skills
1.) If the system is on LVM
2.) USB keyboard only

Third ***NOTE
1.) If your system explodes, eats your childern or floods your toliet
2.) WHOOPS!

If you have those 2 things this will probably not work at first!

With the help of Jimmy from initng project I was able to get initng up and running on my laptop in a pretty short time. End result is 1:20 vs. :18 second boot times.

http://65.28.94.10/pub/bootchartd/initng-bootchart.png

http://65.28.94.10/pub/bootchartd/de...ootchart-1.png

WARNINGS

I haven’t been able to get this to work on a system running LVM and usb doesn’t work during startup!!

wget -c http://initng.thinktux.net/download/initng-0.1.6.tar.bz2
tar xvjpf initng-0.1.6.tar.bz2
cd initng-0.1.6
./configure
make
su -c “make install”

Things to change before you reboot:

Edit grub to include duplicate kernel entrys and edit one to use initng instead of default init and change
root=LABEL=/1 to root=/dev/hda3 (what ever your / is on)

]vi /boot/grub/grub.conf

title Fedora Core (2.6.12-1.1398_FC4-initng)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 ro root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x317 init=/sbin/initng
#init=/sbin/bootchartd-ng
        initrd /initrd-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4.img

title Fedora Core (2.6.12-1.1398_FC4)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet init=/sbin/bootchartd
        initrd /initrd-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4.img

Edit the system.runlevel for initng and comment out coldplug

vi /etc/initng/system.runlevel

#system/coldplug

Add some extras to default.runlevel
vi /etc/initng/default.runlevel

daemon/xfs
daemon/gdm
daemon/hald
system/usb
system/alsasound

To start services after the system is up (in 18 seconds), like coldplug to control my usb mouse

ngc -u system/coldplug

To add/del service from starting up

ng-update add system/coldplug default
ng-update add daemon/gdm default

ng-update del system/coldplug default
ng-update del daemon/gdm default

I assume lvm bits need to be added to /etc/initng/system/initial.i file included.

There are some other errors during boot up, but nothing that looks chaotic and again, lvm = no at the moment and if you have usb kbd you might be out of look (unless you can ssh to it)

# ngc -s
Next Generation init Control.
written by Jimmy Wennlund <jimmy.wennlund@gmail.com>

 hh:mm:ss service (fetching a 01124 byte table)    : status
 ----------------------------------------------------------
 21:40:54 default                                  : done.
 21:40:51 system                                   : done.
 21:40:54 net/eth0                                 : done.
 21:40:51 daemon/sshd                              : running.
 20:40:50 daemon/acpid                             : running.
 21:40:49 daemon/xfs                               : running.
 21:40:51 daemon/gdm                               : running.
 21:40:51 daemon/hald                              : running.
 20:40:50 system/usb                               : done.
 21:40:49 system/alsasound                         : done.
 20:40:48 system/initial                           : done.
 20:40:49 system/mountroot                         : done.
 20:40:50 system/mountfs                           : done.
 21:40:49 system/bootmisc                          : done.
 01:40:48 system/clock                             : done.
 20:40:48 system/hostname                          : done.
 20:40:49 system/modules                           : done.
 20:40:49 system/static-modules                    : done.
 20:40:49 system/hdparm                            : done.
 21:40:49 system/keymaps                           : done.
 20:40:50 system/urandom                           : done.
 21:40:49 system/consolefont                       : done.
 20:40:49 system/swap                              : done.
 21:40:51 net/lo                                   : done.
 20:40:50 daemon/agetty                            : done.
 20:40:50 daemon/agetty/tty2                       : running.
 20:40:50 daemon/agetty/tty3                       : running.
 20:40:50 daemon/agetty/tty4                       : running.
 20:40:50 daemon/agetty/tty5                       : running.
 20:40:50 daemon/agetty/tty6                       : running.
 20:40:50 daemon/agetty/tty7                       : running.
 20:40:50 daemon/agetty/tty8                       : running.
 20:40:50 daemon/agetty/tty9                       : running.
 20:40:49 daemon/acpid/modules                     : done.
 20:40:50 system/localmount                        : done.
 21:40:49 daemon/prexfs                            : done.
 21:40:51 daemon/dbus                              : running.
 21:40:49 system/alsasound/loadmodules             : done.
 21:40:54 up                                       : done.
 21:40:54 daemon/agetty/tty1                       : running.

Thanks again Jimmy!

[jim]

Hey I tried this out And I get a Kernel Panic attempting to kill Init
Grub.conf

title Fedora Core (2.6.12-1.1398_FC4-INITNG)
root (hd0,5)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 ro root=/ vga=0x317 init=/sbin/initng
initrd /initrd-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4.img

title Fedora Core (2.6.12-1.1398_FC4)
root (hd0,5)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4.img

/etc/initng/default.runlevel

system
net/eth0
daemon/sshd
daemon/acpid
daemon/xfs
daemon/gdm
daemon/hald
system/usb
system/alsasound

/etc/initng/system.runlevel

system/initial
system/mountroot
system/mountfs
system/bootmisc
system/clock
system/hostname
system/modules
system/static-modules
system/hdparm
system/keymaps
system/urandom
system/consolefont
system/swap
#system/coldplug
net/lo
daemon/agetty

is there a debugging file that I can post??
I looked in /var/log/messages and found what appeared to be the fat drive I was trying to mount.
I'll post back to let ya know

[jim]

Well still no good
I get a faild to switch /dev/console!!!!!
failed to switch 22

System SPECs
Notebook
intel mobile Pentium M 1.5 GHz
768 MB PC2700 200 pin RAM
40 GB 5400 RPM hard drive

[cybrjackle]

root=/

Needs to point to your device, example /dev/hda3

[jim]

ok got a bit further but dies a line 118
getty tty 1 - 9

[cybrjackle]

add

--interactive

/sbin/initng --interactive

that will let you see were it breaks

[jim]

I'm a patient person How do I go about removing this application ?
I tried a make uninstall and there is no option for that.

[skipper3k]

how can I load 'ngc -u system/coldplug' before loging into desktop and starting it manualy ?

edit: stupid question. Didn't read the post quite trough.

[cybrjackle]

Hum, as far as removing it. I'm not sure were "all" the files are located at, and it really doesn't take much space up. If you just make sure your pointing to /sbin/init and not /sbin/initng no worries.

[ace2005]

Thanks for the tip my computer starts amaizingly fast , But i do have a problem with coldplug

Originally Posted by cybrjackle

First
To start services after the system is up (in 18 seconds), like coldplug to control my usb mouse

ngc -u system/coldplug

To add/del service from starting up

ng-update add system/coldplug default
ng-update add daemon/gdm default

ng-update del system/coldplug default
ng-update del daemon/gdm default

I assume lvm bits need to be added to /etc/initng/system/initial.i file included.

# ngc -s

I don't understand the step about coldplug, i need it for my usb modem, at the moment the usb power light does not turn on so the modem is not turned on so i guess coldplug turns it on. But i don't know what to do with:

ngc -u system/coldplug

What do i do with it? Do i type it into Konsole? as su or not? because if i do type it into konsole i get "bash: ngc: command not found"

and whats lvm, do i need to be concerned about it?

[cybrjackle]

ngc -u system/coldplug

Yes, run that as root from a console/terminal.

If you don't know what lvm is, you are probably not using it

LVM is a Logical Volume Manger, it enables you to create file systems and grow them as you need more space.

[ace2005]

I tried it in Konsole and i got:

[ace@localhost ~]$ ngc -u system/coldplug
bash: ngc: command not found
[ace@localhost ~]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost ace]# ngc -u system/coldplug
bash: ngc: command not found
[root@localhost ace]#

Now what do i do?

[ace2005]

Shouldn't system/usb in /etc/initng/default.runlevel be disabled because it needs system/coldplug to work?

[ace2005]

Originally Posted by ace2005

I tried it in Konsole and i got:

[ace@localhost ~]$ ngc -u system/coldplug
bash: ngc: command not found
[ace@localhost ~]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost ace]# ngc -u system/coldplug
bash: ngc: command not found
[root@localhost ace]#

Now what do i do?

Oh i get it now, you mean in the terminal as in Ctrl+Alt+F2 and not in Konsole in KDE

[cybrjackle]

Originally Posted by ace2005

Oh i get it now, you mean in the terminal as in Ctrl+Alt+F2 and not in Konsole in KDE

Did you

su

or

su -

You want to do the 2nd one, the first one gives root the $PATH of your user, which doesn't help find system commands