From: matt@proweb.co.uk
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] booting a 9 pc without using any disk nor a prom burner
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 01:39:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <64ab3c6f8fd3e9c4a1cb7db8f325e328@juice.thebigchoice.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0402231719290.26066-100000@maxroach.lanl.gov>
> Is that bsd from CF doing a full general-purpose boot, or is it
specialized to being an mp3 player?
It's a stock FreeBSD 4.8 crammed into 22Mb using Matthias' very helpful page he posted earlier
The kernel is GENERIC with the SCSI stuff and unused network cards removed
it runs sshd and usbd and portmap (I was playing with using amd)
time from hitting power to hearing "music" is 35 seconds
time from hitting power to getting to the FreeBSD boot manager 12 seconds
mpg123 alone has a 5 second startup
the playlist script isn't very tuned for speed:
'find /mnt/cdrom* | grep mp3 | mpg123 -@ - -Z'
(it's cdrom* because by luck someone gave me an NEC 4 cd rom changer years ago)
m
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-24 1:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-23 7:52 Geoff Collyer
2004-02-23 7:00 ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-23 9:11 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-02-23 9:23 ` Richard Miller
2004-02-23 9:30 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-02-23 15:03 ` Jim Choate
2004-02-23 10:18 ` matt
2004-02-23 10:27 ` Matthias Teege
2004-02-23 16:14 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-02-23 18:17 ` ron minnich
2004-02-23 18:43 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-02-23 19:36 ` ron minnich
2004-02-24 0:19 ` matt
2004-02-24 0:28 ` ron minnich
2004-02-24 1:39 ` matt [this message]
2004-02-24 1:43 ` ron minnich
2004-02-24 11:08 ` matt
2004-02-24 1:59 ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-02-24 3:40 ` Geoff Collyer
2004-02-24 3:58 ` Kenji Okamoto
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