From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <374456FE.F3AD5501@wanadoo.fr> Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 20:39:58 +0200 From: Martin Costabel Reply-To: costabel@wanadoo.fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: OF booting news References: <374440FF.D74A6407@americasm01.nt.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Jerry Quinn wrote: > > Remco Post wrote: > > BootX is a huge improvement if you like waiting for a machine to boot and have > > an option. Quik is still my favourite since I never boot MacOS on my 7200. > BootX is a huge improvement because it allows OS choice in a clean > manner. I don't like waiting for my system to boot any more than the > next person, although timeout on an OS chooser doesn't bother me. I am curious: Has anyone ever compared the actual booting times for OF booting and BootX booting (I can't, because my 6400 doesn't OF boot anymore). I suspect the difference is less than 10 seconds. On a total booting time of more than 60 seconds, this is really minimal. I just rebooted, and the total time of 110 seconds (from typing "reboot" until the login prompt) was spent as follows: 35 sec: shutdown 23 sec: starting MacOS and BootX extension, hitting the button, waiting for the penguin to show up and the kernel messages to start scrolling by 52 sec: rest of linux boot procedure. -- Martin [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. Please check http://lists.linuxppc.org/ ]] [[ and http://www.linuxppc.org/ for useful information before posting. ]]