Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:03:39 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A big-ish machine, cannot boot Message-ID: <AANLkTi=jRVamHLXof9oyS-WVENvj_kZcMByLjipvwdEL@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4CE6ACEF.4000303@freebsd.org> References: <ic65q8$a76$1@dough.gmane.org> <4CE69CFA.4030803@freebsd.org> <20101119171359.65b43213@ernst.jennejohn.org> <AANLkTinWRxy=7J1qRSPHehO2hRTz6cUk1L5pqaD8-tWj@mail.gmail.com> <4CE6ACEF.4000303@freebsd.org>
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On 19 November 2010 17:59, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> wrote: > on 19/11/2010 18:57 Ivan Voras said the following: >> On 19 November 2010 17:13, Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@googlemail.com> wr= ote: >>> On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:51:22 +0200 >>> Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> wrote: >>> >>>> on 19/11/2010 17:41 Ivan Voras said the following: >>>>> Fujitsu TX300 >>>> >>>> [Thunderbird 3 sometimes fails quoting while replying - blame it] >>>> >>>> Perhaps I am wrong, but isn't the "twirly" shown by the loader, still? >>>> Not sure if the kernel does that. >>>> >>> >>> Yup, that's the boot loader. =C2=A0The kernel spits out printfs. >> >> Good news, of sorts - I left while I went for dinner and apparently it >> did boot in the meantime. So it's not a complete hang, it just takes >> unexpectedly long (10+ minutes?) >> >> I'm currently running "make -j24 buildworld" and once it boots it >> looks very fast! > > You ought to determine a cause of the long boot, though. > No compromises or excuses! :-) Yes, it does bug me. It looked like a kernel hang (not loader) since the machine didn't respond to ctrl-alt-del, only on cold boot. No BIOS options seemed to help - not disabling SMP nor trying different memory options or timings.
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