Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Installing kernel 2.4 | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | 08 Nov 2000 08:29:59 -0700 |
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Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> writes:
> I'd prefer to be a guinea pig for one of 3 or 4 generic kernels distributed > in binary than of one of the hundreds of possibilities of patching a kernel > together at boot, plus the (presumamby rather complex and fragile) > machinery to do so *before* the kernel is booted, thank you very much. > > Plus I'm getting pissed off by how long a boot takes as it stands today...
Just for reference I can Boot from Power on to Login prompt in 12 seconds. With Linux. The big change is nuking the BIOS....
> > They just want it to boot, and run with the same level of ease of use > > and stability they get with NT and NetWare and other stuff they are used > > to. This is an easy choice from where I'm sitting. > > Easy: i386. Or i486 (I very much doubt your customers run on less, and this > should be geneic enough).
It's also possible to do a two stage boot. Stage 1 i386 kernel stage 2 the specific kernel for the machine.... This adds about a second to the whole boot process.
Eric
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