Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:33:23 +0000 (GMT) From: "Mark Powell" <M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk> To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing all ZFS support from boot process Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1102111025470.23895@rust.salford.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <C2BE4608-A0A6-493D-A767-37F91ECED4AE@gsoft.com.au> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1102101447240.69722@rust.salford.ac.uk> <C2BE4608-A0A6-493D-A767-37F91ECED4AE@gsoft.com.au>
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On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > This is before the kernel boots, correct? Yep. > Can you take a picture of where it hangs? (you will have to host it > somewhere though, as the list will reject non text attachments). Here you go: http://galatea.salford.ac.uk/aix502/11022011448.jpg http://galatea.salford.ac.uk/aix502/11022011449.jpg The spinning char can seemingly be in any position when it crashes. It took 5 attempts that time to get to the beastie menu. > I suspect it's in the loader and quite possibly it's your BIOS that is > at fault, or at the very least there is a nasty interaction with it. > > Is there an update for the BIOS? Does this happen on other hardware? I suspected BIOS, that's why I was going to get a new motherboard. I've always had problems getting gptzfsboot working on this hardware and there are no more BIOS updates now. That's why I have ufs root, as it only worked intermitantly. Then I wondered what the hell was going on in the loader that took >60s and seemingly touched every drive. I assumed it was FBSD that was tasting all the drives. Cheers. -- Mark Powell - UNIX System Administrator - The University of Salford IT Services, Clifford Whitworth Building, Salford University, Manchester, M5 4WT, UK. Tel: +44 161 295 6843 Fax: +44 161 295 6624 www.pgp.com for PGP key
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