From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 11 10:33:27 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54DE9106566C for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:33:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk) Received: from relay0.salford.ac.uk (relay0.salford.ac.uk [146.87.0.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B495E8FC08 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:33:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 10954 invoked by uid 98); 11 Feb 2011 10:33:25 -0000 Received: from 146.87.255.121 by relay0.salford.ac.uk (envelope-from , uid 401) with qmail-scanner-2.01 (clamdscan: 0.96/12665. spamassassin: 3.2.4. Clear:RC:1(146.87.255.121):. Processed in 0.037453 secs); 11 Feb 2011 10:33:25 -0000 Received: from rust.salford.ac.uk (HELO rust.salford.ac.uk) (146.87.255.121) by relay0.salford.ac.uk (qpsmtpd/0.3x.614) with SMTP; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:33:25 +0000 Received: (qmail 24860 invoked by uid 1002); 11 Feb 2011 10:33:23 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 11 Feb 2011 10:33:23 -0000 Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:33:23 +0000 (GMT) From: "Mark Powell" To: Daniel O'Connor In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing all ZFS support from boot process X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:33:27 -0000 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