Re: [Thinstation-developer] So you want fast booting?

[Tobias P. <tob...@pa...>]

Hi Don,

struggling with your new parameter i have a suggestion. If you put some
bigger package into youre build. for example firefox the filesize of the
lib.squash is getting too big for the busybox based tftp client. He
cannot dynamically adjust the blocksize option.
pxelinux work fine with it.

btw: 53 seconds to boot on a atom based client with firefox7 on it
without threefile.
and 42 seconds for thirdfile booting. nice improvement.
all times are measured from pressing the power button, getting dhcp and
files via tftp on a 100mbit network.

you have to change the following line in the /etc/threefile script:
tftp -g -l lib.squash -r lib.squash -b 8192 $SERVER_IP

or replace the tftp client or compile something different. didn't
remember exactly but the automatic handling  could be supported via a
configure option to busybox.

like justin i boot normally via gpxe from a http server. its great on
modern nic's, but old cards suck.

greets

tobias

Am 11.10.11 07:42, schrieb Don Cupp:
> Well have I got just the thing for you.
>  
> Get the latest git and try "param threefile true" today. When used
> with syslinux, the three file load method is seriously fast, but you
> have to put support for the underlying file system in the image, as we
> are not using the boot loader to read the bulk of of the O/S into
> memory, were doing it after udev initializes.
>  
> Also gets you to the splash way faster when using pxelinux or
> isolinux. I think this feature is pretty darn cool, but I need feedback.
>  
> Oh yeah, also saves about 25% more memory. Yeah.
>
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