Long winded boot after Hd Install

[Katch]

The thing I like about Linux is its like smashing your head against a brickwall for months with no light, then suddenly the wall comes down and you find yourself at another wall.

Don't misunderstand me, each time a wall drops feels amazing and I am growing to understand a love Linux more each day.

So my new wall is streamlining and optimising my boot loading process.

Subjects

IBM Thinkpad T20 (which I've finally managed to get the sound working on )

Hd Install of Auditor Linux (Knoppix based)

Issue

When running the very nice Live CDs like Knoppix STD and Auditor the boot process is very quick and tidy. The modules load, a little progress bar tracks the autoconfig etc then KDE/Fluxbox starts up.

After installing on my Hdd I seem to have a very long boot process containing many things I think are unecessary and that slow me down.

Any advice on what to research and edit to get back to a nice concise boot to KDE?

dmesg

Linux version 2.6.9 (root@box) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-2)) #1 Fri Apr 15 03:56:32 CEST 2005
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fff0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0000 - 000000001fffec00 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 000000001fffec00 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
511MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 131056
  DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
  Normal zone: 126960 pages, LIFO batch:16
  HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 PTLTD                                 ) @ 0x000f7170
ACPI: RSDT (v001 PTLTD    RSDT   0x06041220  LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x1fff4e36
ACPI: FADT (v001 IBM    TP-T20   0x06041220  0x00000000) @ 0x1fffeb65
ACPI: BOOT (v001 PTLTD  $SBFTBL$ 0x06041220  LTP 0x00000001) @ 0x1fffebd9
ACPI: DSDT (v001 IBM    TP-T20   0x06041220 MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda2 ro ramdisk_size=100000 lang=us apm=power-off hda=scsi hdb=scsi hdc=scsi hdd=scsi hde=scsi hdf=scsi hdg=scsi hdh=scsi nomce noapm vga=791
ide_setup: hda=scsi
ide_setup: hdb=scsi
ide_setup: hdc=scsi
ide_setup: hdd=scsi
ide_setup: hde=scsi
ide_setup: hdf=scsi
ide_setup: hdg=scsi
ide_setup: hdh=scsi
No local APIC present or hardware disabled
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 32768 bytes)
Detected 896.407 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 511140k/524224k available (2447k kernel code, 12544k reserved, 1147k data, 272k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 1777.66 BogoMIPS (lpj=888832)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps:  0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
CPU: After all inits, caps:        0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000040
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 0a
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initrd... not found.
ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Edge set to Level Trigger.
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 3451k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
EISA bus registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd94f, last bus=7
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040816
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.AGP_._PRT]
ACPI: Power Resource [PSER] (off)
ACPI: Power Resource [PSIO] (on)
ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC] (gpe 9)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support...
PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00f7220
PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0xb1fc, dseg 0x400
PnPBIOS: 18 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 18 recorded by driver
SCSI subsystem initialized
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:02.1[B] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:05.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:07.2[D] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
TC classifier action (bugs to netdev@oss.sgi.com cc hadi@cyberus.ca)
pnp: 00:00: ioport range 0x15e8-0x15ef has been reserved
pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0x1000-0x103f could not be reserved
pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0x1040-0x104f has been reserved
Simple Boot Flag at 0x35 set to 0x1
Machine check exception polling timer started.
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Initializing Cryptographic API
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xf0000000, mapped to 0xe0880000, size 3072k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=4
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:882d
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Using anticipatory io scheduler
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 100000K size 1024 blocksize
loop: AES key scrubbing enabled
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1800-0x1807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1808-0x180f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: IBM-DBCA-206480, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8081N, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Probing IDE interface ide2...
ide2: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Probing IDE interface ide3...
ide3: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Probing IDE interface ide4...
ide4: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Probing IDE interface ide5...
ide5: Wait for ready failed before probe !
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 12594960 sectors (6448 MB) w/420KiB Cache, CHS=13328/15/63, UDMA(33)
hda: cache flushes not supported
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
ide-cd: passing drive hdc to ide-scsi emulation.
ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX as device
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
  Vendor: HL-DT-ST  Model: DVD-ROM GDR8081N  Rev: 0012
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.26.00.039.
3w-xxxx: No cards found.
3ware 9000 Storage Controller device driver for Linux v2.26.02.001.
libata version 1.02 loaded.
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 10x/24x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
alps.c: E6 report: 00 00 64
alps.c: E7 report: 10 00 64
input: PS/2 Generic Mouse on isa0060/serio1
md: linear personality registered as nr 1
md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2
md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
md: raid10 personality registered as nr 9
md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4
raid5: automatically using best checksumming function: pIII_sse
   pIII_sse  :  1804.000 MB/sec
raid5: using function: pIII_sse (1804.000 MB/sec)
raid6: int32x1    285 MB/s
raid6: int32x2    363 MB/s
raid6: int32x4    242 MB/s
raid6: int32x8    238 MB/s
raid6: mmxx1      867 MB/s
raid6: mmxx2     1082 MB/s
raid6: sse1x1     859 MB/s
raid6: sse1x2    1105 MB/s
raid6: using algorithm sse1x2 (1105 MB/s)
md: raid6 personality registered as nr 8
md: multipath personality registered as nr 7
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: dm@uk.sistina.com
EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa0
Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 1
EISA: Detected 0 cards.
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
Software Suspend Core.
Software Suspend text mode support loaded.
Software Suspend LZF Compression Driver registered.
Software Suspend Gzip Compression Driver registered.
Software Suspend Device Mapper support registering.
Software Suspend Swap Writer registered.
Software Suspend Checksum Module
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
ACPI wakeup devices:
 LID SLPB PCI0  USB UART
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Freeing unused kernel memory: 272k freed
ReiserFS: hda2: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: hda2: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: hda2: journal params: device hda2, size 8192, journal first block 18,max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: hda2: checking transaction log (hda2)
ReiserFS: hda2: Using r5 hash to sort names
Adding 683668k swap on /dev/hda1.  Priority:-1 extents:1
EFS: 1.0a - http://aeschi.ch.eu.org/efs/
ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
ACPI: Processor [CPU] (supports C1 C2 C3, 8 throttling states)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THM0] (63 C)
Linux Kernel Card Services
  options:  [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:02.0 [1014:0130]
Yenta: Using INTVAL to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:00:02.0, mfunc 0x00001000, devctl 0x66
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x04b8, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000010
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:02.1[B] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:02.1 [1014:0130]
Yenta: Using INTVAL to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:00:02.1, mfunc 0x00001000, devctl 0x66
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x04b8, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000006
orinoco 0.13e (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, et al)
orinoco_cs 0.13e (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, et al)
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:07.2[D] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: irq 11, io base 00001820
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ohci_hcd: 2004 Feb 02 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 14 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0,  type 5
input: PC Speaker
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:05.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Crystal 4280/46xx + AC97 Audio, version 1.28.32, 03:49:24 Apr 15 2005
cs46xx: Card found at 0xe8100000 and 0xe8000000, IRQ 11
cs46xx: Thinkpad 600X/A20/T20 (1014:0153) at 0xe8100000/0xe8000000, IRQ 11
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: CRY20 (Cirrus Logic CS4297A rev B)
ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x3000-0x7fff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
cs: memory probe 0xe0100000-0xe17fffff: excluding 0xe0f60000-0xe10cffff
eth0: Station identity 001f:0001:0008:0048
eth0: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 8.72
eth0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
eth0: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
eth0: WEP supported, 104-bit key
eth0: MAC address 00:02:2D:2B:E4:4A
eth0: Station name "HERMES I"
eth0: ready
eth0: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f
mtrr: 0xf0000000,0x800000 overlaps existing 0xf0000000,0x200000

[UnderScore]

That dmesg output is not really gonna help out here.
Lets first get all the running service on your machine.

Step 1: Find out what runlevel is default.
grep default /etc/inittab

Step 2: go to that runlevel rc directory
cd /etc/rc#.d
(in my case runlevel2 is default so: cd /etc/rc2.d/

Step 3: get a list of services
ls

Then copy & paste that list here. Either myself or someone else will help you reduce the number of running services.

[tek]

My biggest issues appear to be that the system wants to rebuild the ld.so.cache and modules each reboot and no matter what i do dma is turned off each time i reboot.

takes 3-4 times longer to boot off of the HD than on the CD/DVD.
This is running on a alienware sentia which is a 1.6Ghz Intel Mobile Centrino with 1.5G of ram and a 100Gig HD

Performance is actually really bad. I love Linux and Knoppix flat kicks ass but i think im gonna have to go back to debian(sarge mixed with a touch of sid) and hope i can address some of the issues since very few of my modifications are surviving reboot and i have never been able to speed up boottime which is literally 5 minutes or more.