Re: [9fans] dynamic loading, was "Ugly Q, I admit"

[andrey mirtchovski <andrey@lanl.gov>]

On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:

> Actually there is some step in plan 9 that makes my PCs take forever to
> boot. Don't know what it is. But they don't typically boot faster than
> Linux for me.
>

i can't speak for anything that i don't have, but my p9 installation boots
on par with freebsd (~34 seconds, freebsd does not have the 10 second
delay before bootstrapping the kernel) to fully functional network-enabled
node (including X). if i had a file server p9 would boot even faster.

the only difference is that i log into p9, while freebds just prompts me
for one...

i strongly believe that boot time is only essential with terminals (which
do get to be rebooted more often) and that with LinuxBIOS-enabled kernel
it won't be hard at all to get the boot time down to linux levels on
a reasonable hardware.

i plan to prove myself wrong someday :)

andrey

ps: your p9 machine isn't trying to dhcp itself in the presence of no dhcp
servers?