From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 9 22:02:52 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BF1976C4 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 2014 22:02:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zoom.lafn.org (zoom.lafn.org [108.92.93.123]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94B1C18CD for ; Wed, 9 Apr 2014 22:02:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.1.3] (static-71-177-216-148.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [71.177.216.148]) (authenticated bits=0) by zoom.lafn.org (8.14.7/8.14.2) with ESMTP id s39M2h9e085178 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 9 Apr 2014 15:02:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Subject: Re: 9.2 Boot Problem Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.6 \(1510\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 From: Doug Hardie X-Priority: 3 In-Reply-To: <868C501131484BBB87D54D17AA29D201@multiplay.co.uk> Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 15:02:43 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <0183209F-227D-4310-ACD1-167ADAEB25C6@lafn.org> References: <175D3755-BB9B-4EAD-BDAD-06E9670E06AB@lafn.org> <186472F9-A97B-4863-81BC-67BE788D5E9A@lafn.org> <791C8200-023A-4ACB-9B6F-F5A8B0E170F4@lafn.org> <868C501131484BBB87D54D17AA29D201@multiplay.co.uk> To: "Steven Hartland" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1510) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.98 at zoom.lafn.org X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Chris H X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 22:02:52 -0000 On 9 April 2014, at 13:35, "Steven Hartland" = wrote: > Its not something silly like the machine has loads of ram and its = running the > boot time check which is taking a long time is it? >=20 > If so you can set the following in loader.conf or the loader prompt = for the > first boot. > hw.memtest.tests=3D"0" >=20 > Regards > Steve The first time the machine sat in the hung state for almost an hour = while I tried to get someone on site to plug in a keyboard. There is = only 2 GB memory in any of the machines.