Hello,
I'm overall satisfied with the performance of my NSA325 + latest u-Boot + Debian on USB flash drive, but one thing that I would like to improve is its boot time. I don't always keep it powered on and it takes more time to boot it than I need to make a cup of tea and get prepared to watch a movie (over SMBfs/minidlna) :-)
Currently it takes about 1 minute from pressing the power button to the moment where I can ping it successfully from another computer.
According to the output of "dmesg" command it takes about 30 seconds to boot Linux system - so I assume another 30 seconds is the system / u-Boot initialisation.
It was 77 seconds before, but I have replaced my flash drive with a faster one, upgraded the kernel and reduced "bootdelay" u-Boot parameter from 3 to 1 - and managed to cut about 17 seconds that way.
Are there any hints / ideas regarding what else can be done to reduce boot time?
(I know that a better idea would probably be buying a more powerful NAS or making my own one - but I'm wondering if there are easy fixes - or not so easy - fixes that can be applied to the current setup - consider it a research project of sort).
I'm overall satisfied with the performance of my NSA325 + latest u-Boot + Debian on USB flash drive, but one thing that I would like to improve is its boot time. I don't always keep it powered on and it takes more time to boot it than I need to make a cup of tea and get prepared to watch a movie (over SMBfs/minidlna) :-)
Currently it takes about 1 minute from pressing the power button to the moment where I can ping it successfully from another computer.
According to the output of "dmesg" command it takes about 30 seconds to boot Linux system - so I assume another 30 seconds is the system / u-Boot initialisation.
It was 77 seconds before, but I have replaced my flash drive with a faster one, upgraded the kernel and reduced "bootdelay" u-Boot parameter from 3 to 1 - and managed to cut about 17 seconds that way.
Are there any hints / ideas regarding what else can be done to reduce boot time?
(I know that a better idea would probably be buying a more powerful NAS or making my own one - but I'm wondering if there are easy fixes - or not so easy - fixes that can be applied to the current setup - consider it a research project of sort).