From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] dynamic loading, was "Ugly Q, I admit"
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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 09:53:56 -0700
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On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp wrote:

> > hmm. I've seen 12 second-to-multiuser boots or less with linuxbios
> > machines from power-on. I have a busybox linux+linuxbios box that boots in
> > 5 seconds -- no /etc/rc nonsense in there though. This is the first box
> > I've had that boots faster than an LCD can go from sleep mode to
> > displaying.
>
> What is linuxbios machine?  It's BIOS is what written in ROM?

see www.linuxbios.org, and I am sorry to have taken this so far
off-topic.

Except, we really hope to finish up the fast plan9 boot from linuxbios
next summer ...

> This is much expanded when we use gnome...  I believe this is not rare
> for many of Linux users.

I always remove gnome.

ron