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Date:      Mon, 09 Dec 2002 22:30:06 +0200
From:      Yury Tarasievich <grog@grsu.by>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   unnaturally slow booting
Message-ID:  <3DF4FD4E.30203@grsu.by>

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Wanted to ask about it for quite some time.

I've got two 20G disks installed with basically same geometry. They were 
partitioned (by linux fdisk) approx. similarly (+/- 10 cylinders):
part. 1: ~1-250
part. 2 (Extended): ~751-everything that remains
part. 3: ~251-500
part. 4: ~501-750

There's FreeBSD (4.7-RELEASE) installed on ad0s3 and ad1s3. There's 
FreeBSD bootmanager installed. Instance from ad1s3 boots without any 
problems. Now, booting instance on ad0s3, beginning with kernel loading 
and through modules from loader.conf loading, takes unnaturally long 
time, "spinning bar" ticks happen at rate about 1 per sec. When kernel 
and modules are loaded, things progress as usual. In fact, I installed 
the instance on ad1s3 just to avoid this weirdness. I believe this 
behaviour started somewhere about 4.6-RELEASE. I somehow do not recall 
seeing this on 4.3-4.5, and I surely was using this scheme of 
partitioning then. I'm in no way expert, so looking through bootloader 
source didn't reveal anything to me.

Any thoughts on what happens?



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