Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:29:56 +0800 From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@kuzbass.ru> To: Bruce M Simpson <bms@incunabulum.net> Cc: Konstantin Belousov <kib@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Long delays for USB realbtx boot Message-ID: <20080911162956.GA15152@svzserv.kemerovo.su> In-Reply-To: <48C91525.10806@incunabulum.net> References: <48C91525.10806@incunabulum.net>
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On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 01:55:01PM +0100, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > I have hacked NanoBSD locally to deal with generation of images for > booting off USB keys. I am using the RELENG_7 branch as real-mode BTX > support is necessary to support USB boot. > > During testing I noticed that whilst the images eventually boot, there > is an extremely long delay before doing so, between when the BIOS reads > the boot sector and when the BTX loader messages appear. > > Test system Time > ---------------------------- > Thinkpad T43 1m 40s > ASUS Vintage AH-1 1m 7s > > Any ideas why this long delay is occuring? For me, it helps to include these knobs to Nano config file: CONF_WORLD=' BOOT_MBR_FLAGS=0x0 BOOT_BOOT1_FLAGS=0x0 ... ' Eugene Grosbein
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