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Date:      Mon, 3 Apr 2006 02:20:35 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Ganbold <ganbold@micom.mng.net>
Cc:        mj@feral.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, mjacob@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: contigmalloc() lameness (Re: boot problem in HP Proliant ML370 G4)
Message-ID:  <20060403062034.GA61453@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 03:15:54PM +0900, Ganbold wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 02:27:31PM +0900, Ganbold wrote:
> > =20
> >>Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >>   =20
> >>>On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 12:56:57PM +0900, Ganbold wrote:
> >>>=20
> >>>     =20
> >>>>Here is dmes.boot and pciconf output on FreeBSD-6.0-RELEASE.
> >>>>Boot takes 3-4 minutes after "da0: 140014MB (286749488 512 byte=20
> >>>>sectors: 255H 63S/T 17849C)" line and continues.
> >>>>I will try to upgrade again to 6.1-PRERELEASE later today. I did befo=
re=20
> >>>>and the problem still was there.
> >>>>  =20
> >>>>       =20
> >>>The mpt driver calls contigmalloc in a way that takes ages to run
> >>>because it was poorly rewritten some time ago.  Scottl partially fixed
> >>>it on 7.0 (after the problem became much worse there - it was taking
> >>>over 40 minutes instead of 4) but the change is not complete enough to
> >>>back-port yet.
> >>>=20
> >>>     =20
> >>I see. Yes, it eventually becomes up after 3-4 minutes.
> >>However what annoying is every time I reboot/restart the server
> >>I have to manually press "Enter" key. How can I resolve this issue?
> >>   =20
> >
> >Please explain what you mean: why do you have to manually press "Enter"?
> > =20
> It is not booting, "-" appears on screen and waits forever. When I press=
=20
> "Enter"
> key on keyboard it starts booting.

That's a completely separate issue.  I don't know why it's happening
though.

Kris

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