very common kernel modules slow down the boot process

Harald Hoyer harald at redhat.com
Wed Apr 2 04:49:51 UTC 2008


Andrew Farris wrote:
> Harald Hoyer wrote:
>> Compiling these modules, which are loaded on nearly every PC, in the 
>> kernel cuts down my boot time from 42s to 32s on my computer:
> 
>> floppy
> 
> I was going to suggest you might want to leave that one out, since I 
> wouldn't think its that common anymore... then I checked, and this is 
> loaded on my machine which has no floppy.
> 

# echo "blacklist floppy" >> /etc/modprobe.conf

or even

# echo "install floppy /bin/true" >> /etc/modprobe.conf





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