From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 9 12:42:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFD9E37B401 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 12:42:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from grsu.by (grsu.by [194.158.202.115]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9647E43EA9 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 12:42:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@grsu.by) Received: (qmail 82615 invoked from network); 9 Dec 2002 20:40:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO grsu.by) (grog@195.50.13.213) by grsu.by with SMTP; 9 Dec 2002 20:40:40 -0000 Message-ID: <3DF4FD4E.30203@grsu.by> Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 22:30:06 +0200 From: Yury Tarasievich User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020829 X-Accept-Language: be, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: unnaturally slow booting Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message