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I've had Arch Linux installed on my system for a while now, but the problem is that it takes way too much time to boot. And so, I'm trying to optimize the boot process. A Google search led me to quick-init but the its' AUR page says its out-of-date. So, I just want to make sure if I should use this? Or are there any other ways?

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Would be extra nice if you included a link, so that I don't have to do the search myself. – Tshepang Jul 15 '11 at 17:26
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You might also provide some information as to exactly where the boot process is slow... That would help with suggestions and recommendations. – jasonwryan Jul 15 '11 at 20:07
@Tshepang- added the link – Samrat Man Singh Jul 16 '11 at 6:00

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I highly recommend the e4rat package. A detailed how-to is on sourceforge as well as in this Lifehacker article.

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You would be better off providing a link to the official Arch information on the Wiki: it is tailored for Arch and won't go out of date like the Lifehacker article: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/E4rat – jasonwryan Jul 31 '11 at 23:47
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Ubuntu uses the ureadahead package. It might take some work to get it going on Arch, but should be possible. See the Ureadahead page on the Arch wiki.

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In your /etc/rc.conf there should be a "DAEMONS" line (see the wiki). This is a list of all of the daemons that will start on system boot. You can specify that a daemon should be started in the background, i.e. don't wait on it to finish starting before continuing, by prefixing a "@" to the daemon name. For example, on my XBMC box I have the following:

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network !netfs crond @acpid @sshd @httpd @samba @alsa @openntpd !dbus @avahi-daemon @mtd @lircd @autofs)

This box boots very quickly.

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