Using Bootchart to Capture Your Boot Process openSUSE 11

“sudo zypper in bootchart -y

You now have it installed, but now what? Here you can either
type in init=/sbin/bootchartd in the grub menu box, or (this is the
approach I took) add an entry into grub’s
/boot/grub/menu.lst. For this example we will be utilizing YaST, to
copy our current default Grub entry and modify to work with
bootchart (you only have to log into this option when you want to
chart your boot process).”

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