From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 8 15: 4:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85FDF37B401 for ; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 15:04:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from view.scoundrelz.net (osh202-181.broadacre.com [66.54.202.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E9B643EB2 for ; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 15:04:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hemi@scoundrelz.net) Received: from view.scoundrelz.net (localhost.scoundrelz.net [127.0.0.1]) by view.scoundrelz.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gB8N4KVO089589 for ; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 17:04:20 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from hemi@scoundrelz.net) Received: from localhost (hemi@localhost) by view.scoundrelz.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id gB8N4JGg089586 for ; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 17:04:20 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: view.scoundrelz.net: hemi owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 17:04:19 -0600 (CST) From: Josh Tolbert To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Extremely slow boot? Message-ID: <20021208162902.G88634-100000@view.scoundrelz.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I've been running FreeBSD since 3.4. I had built a machine to replace my old fileserver, but decided to hold off on switching them around and use the machine to test out 5.0 on. The machine itself is a Tyan Tiger LE (S2515, ServerWorks ServerSet III-LE chipset), dual PIII/733EB, 512M RAM, DPT PM2865U3 64-bit, dual-channel, U160 SCSI RAID controller, on-board Intel Pro/100 ethernet and on-board ATi Rage video. I'm running a bunch of Seagate 9.1G drives in RAID 1/0, an IDE CD-ROM at ata0-master and an IDE CD-RW at ata1-master. The machine worked perfectly with everything before 5.0. I tried to install DP2, but the hardware detection during boot seemed to hang after detecting vga0. I thought that the problem would have been found already and decided to try a later -CURRENT. I downloaded some boot floppies for the latest -CURRENT (20021208) from current.freebsd.org and tried the install again, with the same luck. It appeared to hang after detecting vga0. Booting with -v, I would see a message about "isa_probe_children," and that's when the machine hung. Oddly enough, after letting the machine sit in the "hung" state for a while, the boot process continued and I was able to install, but every time since the long boot times continue. After searching around, I discovered the device hint 'hint.acpi.0.disable="1"' and added it to my /boot/device.hints, but the problem still persists. I then set acpi_load="NO" in /boot/loader.conf, but with no luck. The machine boots, just boots extremely slow. Any ideas? I'm happy to post any information that's requested (once the machine boots...). Thanks, Josh Tolbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message