From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 21:25:58 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <0ed77dd9e8eaee6f115152d1e37b01d9@brasstown.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: <259935D3-4933-4C59-A376-CF0726CE2B23@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp> References: <85af690eff1ce236dd281a2a86b4f481@hamnavoe.com> <6436ed69830a1193bf7566be810e705b@ladd.quanstro.net> <9A159701-1047-44BC-9692-8B893460A0D4@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp> <259935D3-4933-4C59-A376-CF0726CE2B23@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] 9pccpu: can't open /dev/sdXX/nvram Topicbox-Message-UUID: 59200ea6-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed May 15 20:17:40 EDT 2013, arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp wrote: > Hello Erik, > > the problem is not in transmission speed of network. > mine is based on 9front. > messages that come from booting process is as follows: > (1) the content in plan9.ini. > (2) then single letter hexadecimal messages 0 1 ... a b .. f 0 1 ... > (3) and then "boot". the message comes from bootfat. > (4) finally "Plan9" message from the loaded kernel. > > the message (2) is very slow and takes much time to finish. i find that step (0), just getting the box to pxe the loader can be the slowest part. > I suspect bootfat takes too much time to find a specified kernel in fat partition. with the same style loader, i don't have that issue. are there a lot of files in your fat? > I accessed http://ftp.9atom.org/other/9paecpu to try your 9atom. > however I got "Object not found". > sorry. i didn't copy enough stuff over to the new servers. fixed. - erik