From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 11 23:26:03 2008 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 25C441065672; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:26:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bms@incunabulum.net) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCD448FC17; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:26:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bms@incunabulum.net) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF600160C4A; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:26:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:26:01 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: 6yWHKr27QqixLG39v01SE+MXlC7VKfADzv6jj3/uqmDD 1221175561 Received: from empiric.lon.incunabulum.net (82-35-112-254.cable.ubr07.dals.blueyonder.co.uk [82.35.112.254]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1055817C63; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:26:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <48C9A907.8000000@incunabulum.net> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:25:59 +0100 From: Bruce M Simpson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080514) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eugene Grosbein References: <48C91525.10806@incunabulum.net> <20080911162956.GA15152@svzserv.kemerovo.su> In-Reply-To: <20080911162956.GA15152@svzserv.kemerovo.su> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Konstantin Belousov , FreeBSD stable , John Baldwin Subject: Re: Long delays for USB realbtx boot 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: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:26:03 -0000 Eugene Grosbein wrote: > For me, it helps to include these knobs to Nano config file: > > CONF_WORLD=' > BOOT_MBR_FLAGS=0x0 > BOOT_BOOT1_FLAGS=0x0 > ... > ' > I added this to the CONF_WORLD in my config file. Unfortunately this seems to break USB boot completely for me. When I attempt to boot the USB flash device on the AH-1, the 1 minute delay still exists. The messages "No /boot/loader" and "No /boot/kernel/kernel" are printed, and the image does not boot -- it sits at the "FreeBSD/i386 boot" prompt. It does however see the files at the top of the root filesystem, it just refuses to boot further. The device has less than 1023 cylinders, so the restrictions which would make EDD/packet mode necessary should not apply, and I would have thought that your workaround would work. I am using "USB-HDD" style geometry at the moment (255/63/cc), not "USB-ZIP" (64/32/cc). Would that make a difference? What's interesting is that "camcontrol modepage da0 -m 0x05" returns a different geometry from that reported by the BIOS: %%% Transfer rate: 61440 Number of heads: 16 Sectors per track: 32 Data bytes per sector: 512 Number of cylinders: 3816 Starting cylinder-write precompensation: 0 Starting cylinder-reduced write current: 0 Drive step rate: 0 Drive step pulse width: 0 Head settle delay: 0 Motor on delay: 0 Motor off delay: 0 TRDY: 0 SSN: 0 MO: 0 SPC: 0 Write Compensation: 0 Head load delay: 0 Head unload delay: 0 Pin 34: 0 Pin 2: 0 Pin 4: 0 Pin 1: 0 Medium rotation rate: 0 %%% cheers BMS