From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 26 13:21:16 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E651A106564A for ; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:21:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gdoe6545@yahoo.it) Received: from smtp113.plus.mail.re1.yahoo.com (smtp113.plus.mail.re1.yahoo.com [69.147.102.76]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 780288FC1F for ; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:21:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 23593 invoked from network); 26 Mar 2010 12:54:35 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.it; h=Received:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:From:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Subject:Date:Message-Id:To:Mime-Version:X-Mailer; b=5sCtOkklcOI4ax+YrLKQpNzX5ZToNggfZRRyUeJy9xwrZMWqLXJSNWM+pQ5f1ZQSRS2KYUcvyhG65c7AuCY8mvS5/uJYv8kU+Lk25FJaGafpN4b3mvvIUO9CBjmcMxcGUuqz6Z110wasWLG2kBTJce0ao4SxrmWb7ux2PYdYvpU= ; Received: from 81-174-13-193.static.ngi.it (gdoe6545@81.174.13.193 with plain) by smtp113.plus.mail.re1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 26 Mar 2010 05:54:34 -0700 PDT X-Yahoo-SMTP: Ldxj1OSswBDyaOddJO96A9qtUCYq X-YMail-OSG: ywfm4f4VM1moLBvbICThqZfkUTL2Eggo.EhxbEffmQa8CnSbgxKeo6S1VSifun0Zf3puck9oco9trVT58Vc_AV6JaY1v39gU7r.LiO6L0sYeFS.YVguw.bmn_fa7zA4sWcIAYPTD74Lkdgf0SPNTk3iS8aCdkPBrGNzvcMmukOgufaLBa.gnzbOBinPtHNgDHnA3txc18bhsbUv6yY7HzE2d6C55p4nilZWlDtFHNjDs42w7OL5KGnB0hEa4AYaHdJw_cXwIemyFckjBMNZgGSWJM1bbjqmax10ysZFh9LaB.gdZKlIvRJ0PlKInNhWyYsnm8y4QpeqRuPQr6eQsgDE3EtK_pm96JRrOjQAHLtpXGo6AAuG6dOsdBc1zc5JjxnrLRqRkhWWdahRgnmTMgYly66CwDKw- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 From: Gianni Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:54:32 +0100 Message-Id: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1077) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1077) Subject: ZFS root BTX Loader very slow X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:21:17 -0000 I've installed root on ZFS according to the Wiki. http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/Mirror I rebuilt world yesterday and upgraded my zfs pool to version 14 and = also upgraded the bootcode with: gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad4 gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad8 Now on boot the system waits for about 70 seconds at the following = screen: BTX Loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02 Consoles: internal video/keyboard BIOS drive A: is disk0 BIOS drive C: is disk1 BIOS drive D: is disk2 BIOS drive E: is disk3 BIOS drive F: is disk4 BIOS drive G: is disk5 _ No errors appear and eventually the system boots normally from the zfs = root. Any ideas why it's taking so long at this stage? what is actually going = on at this point? Thanks Gianni=