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Subject: Re: [9fans] booting a 9 pc without using any disk nor a prom burner
From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
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Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 11:43:57 -0700
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> On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, andrey mirtchovski wrote:
>
>> It takes 14 seconds to go from power on to "init: starting /bin/rc"!
>
> we gotta speed that up.

I think 14 is pretty good considering you get the _entire_ system up,
ready to accept logins.  How fast can you go from 'mounting root' to a
boot prompt on a standard Linux distribution (i.e.  one that's not
modified especially for speed)?

Plan 9 on the ituner takes 10 seconds to come up ready to serve from
the time it finds the ethernet card (that means DHCP, connection,
authentication, namespace setup, cpurc)...