From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] some #s In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 12:46:17 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c3e83392-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Wed Jun 4 00:22:20 EDT 2003, rminnich@lanl.gov wrote: > ... > Some timing for same hardware with 9load/plan 9: > > 0->10 seconds: 9load is up and has loaded the plan 9 kernel over ether > 10-20 seconds: no real output from plan 9 > 20-30 seconds (or so): until I get the 'boot from [il]' prompt > ... i just tried some boots without a plan9.ini (9load tweaked to probe suitable ether devices, but no other changes). the machine is a standard asus k7m motherboard with a floppy and 2 ether cards, no other peripherals: it takes 20s from power on to get 9load off the floppy, probe for peripherals and get to the 'boot from: ' prompt; it takes 3s after typing 'ether0!/386/9pccpu' to the above prompt to get the kernel over the ether and get the 'root is from (il, tcp)[il]: ' prompt. perhaps the kernel is poking some other peripherals on your system (e.g. things that look like discs) to create the delay you see after the kernel is loaded?