9fans - fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] EPIA CPU node success
Date: Fri,  7 Nov 2003 07:44:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0311070744090.29816-100000@maxroach.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b68ed19aeffe96bb173ddab38be91c97@hamnavoe.com>

On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Richard Miller wrote:

> Is 10-11 seconds to boot really that remarkable?  How long does the normal
> BIOS and 9load take on the same setup?

I think longer.

> After making two small tweaks to 9load, I find my thinkpad t21 goes from
> power-off to rc prompt in 14 seconds. Adding grub (to allow multi
> booting) only takes it to 15.

That's impressive. My is not quite that fast.

But overall plan 9 sure boots faster than linux nowadays ...

ron



  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-11-07 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-06  3:15 ron minnich
2003-11-06  5:17 ` Russ Cox
2003-11-07  9:01 ` Richard Miller
2003-11-07  9:18   ` Geoff Collyer
2003-11-07 14:46     ` ron minnich
2003-11-07 14:44   ` ron minnich [this message]
2003-11-07 21:38   ` Vester Thacker
2003-11-07 22:30     ` Charles Forsyth
2003-11-07 22:42     ` jmk
2003-11-06  5:24 Scott Schwartz
2003-11-06 14:08 ` ron minnich

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=Pine.LNX.4.44.0311070744090.29816-100000@maxroach.lanl.gov \
    --to=rminnich@lanl.gov \
    --cc=9fans@cse.psu.edu \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).