On Thu, 20 May 1999, Martin Costabel wrote:

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.

I upgraded a PowerMac 8500 based PPC target system to YDL-1.0 and
compared the boot times last week. My findings make a rather strong
argument for OF booting: while BootX booting (using MacOS 8.6) takes about
30 secs, the kernel is loaded and started from OF in typically 3 seconds
(stopwatch timing).




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