Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:21:55 -0500 From: Alex Goncharov <alex-goncharov@comcast.net> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 8 to 9: A longer wait early in the boot of a (damaged) Compaq Presario Message-ID: <E1Ry5xr-000HUH-6Q@hans3> In-Reply-To: <4F3D460E.7090507@gmail.com> (message from Rares Aioanei on Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:08:14 %2B0200) References: <E1Ry5E4-000HRq-ED@hans3> <4F3D460E.7090507@gmail.com>
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,--- I/Alex (Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:34:36 -0500) ----* | There was one other odd thing that I noticed then: while Debian booted | without a delay, FreeBSD 8 made a long pause after passing the boot | menu: it would display the '/' character and sit there for some | non-trivial amount of seconds. I assumed that it was doing some BIOS | querying, and with BIOS (firmware?) being damaged, it took the system | some time to figure things out... perhaps it was re-querying BIOS, | seeing the insane value of 0 for an interface's Ethernet address (I | have many machines running FreeBSD, including multiple laptops, and | this machine is unique in the long bootup pause). `-------------------------------------------------* ,--- Rares Aioanei (Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:08:14 +0200) ----* | I get the same on my HP Pavilion dv9750 laptop, but with an intact BIOS, | afaict. And that happens regardless of the wi-fi card's state (eg | disabled or enabled from the hardware button). Maybe this helps. `--------------------------------------------------------* To add to the fact base: I don't have any of this with my HP Pavilion DV6-1334US: neither with FreeBSD 8 nor 9 (upgraded that laptop two days ago, too.) -- Alex -- alex-goncharov@comcast.net --
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