Re: Boot poster challenge

[Sam Varshavchik <mrsam courier-mta com>]

Arjan van de Ven writes:

> On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 12:18 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
>
> >  CPU utilization would
> > be parallelized with that, and all queries on external systems would
> > be asynchronous ... startup continues and once the external system
> > responds, the system state is updated. Plausibly the user could start
> > work under 10 seconds on this ideal system.
>
> given the 7 second disk read time... 10 seconds is a bit unrealistic.
> One of the critical paths will be getting an IP address and mounting the
> /home dir over nfs... ethernet negotiation can easily be 10 seconds
> already with gige, and DHCP is depending on that to complete before it
> can get a lease.

Add 30 seconds if you're booting off aic79xx.o

Why does loading that gawd-awful microcode take so long?

I don't notice ANY delay when booting XP on the same box.

It shouldn't take more than one or two seconds to initialize the SCSI card.

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