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 suspect bootfat takes too much time to find a specified kernel in fat partition. the time is mother board dependent. my new one is sufficiently fast, but old one (GA-G31M-S2L) is irritatingly slow. Kenji Arisawa P.S. I accessed http://ftp.9atom.org/other/9paecpu to try your 9atom. however I got "Object not found". On 2013/05/16, at 6:18, erik quanstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed May 15 16:57:59 EDT 2013, [email protected] wrote: >> >> PXE + (nvram on usb flash) is much faster than usb flash only boot. > > my experience has been that usb flash boot can be faster due > to networking quirks. for example, spanning tree or even switch uplink > connect times can be measured in many seconds. > > - erik >
