[mythtv-users] Quick-boot linux?

Mark J. Small msmall at eastlink.ca
Tue Feb 19 13:00:19 UTC 2008


On February 19, 2008, Ronald Frazier wrote:
> > Set up a tmpfs, populate it with sg_reset and libc6, and invoke it from
> > ususpend-ram.conf
> >
> > OnResume 99 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mnt/tmpfs /mnt/tmpfs/sg_reset -b /dev/sda
> >
> > Works like a charm.  Full start in ~15 seconds, of which 5 or so is SCSI
> > related.
>
> I'm glad you got it working.  I was wondering about doing that a few
> weeks ago, but never took the effort to try it. Now I wonder if I
> could do the same for my network card (to avoid having to use the PCI
> one). I'd have to "modprobe - r" the forcedeth driver and then
> "modprobe" it after wakeup. How do you find out what libraries
> something depends on. Also, any idea how you modprobe a driver from an
> arbitrary path? I thought I tried that once and it wouldn't work
> unless it was under /lib/modules.

try insmod /path/to/module/modname.ko

Mark


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