On Wed May 15 20:17:40 EDT 2013, aris...@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp wrote: > Hello Erik, > > the problem is not in transmission speed of network. > mine is based on 9front. > messages that come from booting process is as follows: > (1) the content in plan9.ini. > (2) then single letter hexadecimal messages 0 1 ... a b .. f 0 1 ... > (3) and then "boot". the message comes from bootfat. > (4) finally "Plan9" message from the loaded kernel. > > the message (2) is very slow and takes much time to finish.
i find that step (0), just getting the box to pxe the loader can be the slowest part. > I suspect bootfat takes too much time to find a specified kernel in fat > partition. with the same style loader, i don't have that issue. are there a lot of files in your fat? > I accessed http://ftp.9atom.org/other/9paecpu to try your 9atom. > however I got "Object not found". > sorry. i didn't copy enough stuff over to the new servers. fixed. - erik
