From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 22 21:00:51 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3690ED62 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 21:00:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from loic.blot@unix-experience.fr) Received: from smtp.smtpout.orange.fr (smtp06.smtpout.orange.fr [80.12.242.128]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D23251DEA for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 21:00:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.42.69.5] ([82.120.79.76]) by mwinf5d29 with ME id rYtC1l0051enCNi03YtDmN; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 22:53:13 +0200 Message-ID: <1371934392.9964.6.camel@Nerz-PC> Subject: Re: slow bootloader on Dell R320 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Lo=EFc?= BLOT To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 22:53:12 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20130622204906.GB74507@icarus.home.lan> References: <1371929857.9964.3.camel@Nerz-PC> <20130622204906.GB74507@icarus.home.lan> Organization: UNIX Experience Fr Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha256"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-rHkNowxutydE2PySP3TV" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.8.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: loic.blot@unix-experience.fr List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 21:00:51 -0000 --=-rHkNowxutydE2PySP3TV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Jeremy, 1. it's a FreeBSD-9.1-p3 (RELEASE) (sorry i haven't the exact output because i'm not at work, but i'm sure of the release and version). 2. I have only 2 300GB disks in a RAID-1 on a perc H310 3. No ZFS was there, it's UFS2 without tuning options. --=20 Best regards, Lo=C3=AFc BLOT,=20 UNIX systems, security and network expert http://www.unix-experience.fr Le samedi 22 juin 2013 =C3=A0 13:49 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick a =C3=A9crit : > On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 09:37:37PM +0200, Loc BLOT wrote: > > Hi all ! > > Thanks for the very good support of Dell R320 hardware, perc H310 is > > well supported, BCM5720 seems to work correctly and performances are > > great. > > The only problem i have found is very strange. The FreeBSD bootloader > > take many times to load, 30sec-2minutes to boot the kernel and show the > > bootloader menu. After that, the system boots properly, at a normal > > speed. > > Is there any issue or optimization i can do ? > > The OpenBSD bootloader doesn't have this problem. >=20 > 1. What FreeBSD version exactly? (Please don't say "9.1", we need to > know the full version, e.g. 9.1-RELEASE, or if you built your own we > need uname -a output (you can hide the machine name)) >=20 > 2. How many disks are in the machine? >=20 > 3. Are any of the disks used for ZFS? >=20 > There have been **many** improvements to the FreeBSD bootloader with > regards to things taking a long time on boot-up in semi-recent days, but > answers to the above questions will determine that. >=20 --=-rHkNowxutydE2PySP3TV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) iF4EABEIAAYFAlHGDrgACgkQh290DZyz8ub2sgEA0HBNxymanE3bL8vNsUvj8OTC cT2GjMJpaJADh4ryWZIA/R8MZ68Nlq2Y4BVItGDFToii8iU1ot8CvnFDlOZWB9sq =lfSz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-rHkNowxutydE2PySP3TV--