From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 19 17:04:21 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DCB5106564A; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:04:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ivoras@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3290E8FC08; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:04:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws4 with SMTP id 4so2489936vws.13 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:04:20 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:from:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=shLQsg/D0AtjqcArys3GMaDCiHlhV7pikiFCrZwj8EU=; b=ldMkMb1DyuW/4sZu/nXBNyrGewDHEl/vFsUCgjyM+LY128gXVRJ1YqRzYffctSDpe5 8LDu1YV+3k9fZ7GzQxzqZn330QwPLlcs798dVcIbPe0DKlAZuK1WLUif23D7kazDe5WO bMBUFJ7fbcISfsqCG8IusWyAOALqhJ3pLTtDA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=pMm4TlzATQUkg8gGiHQm2lHtrBucl3SPTERMc2s99/XfHuf53+xBudVmjEARQD+PSL sVSKEYtk9rYZ+qsCzWGx6MweO22MJbdcNkM9GXToWIpbx1g3mJ+w9h+5fV7IaUvgSZRv jNnUdpWUK0T7UyAKsulT/gta9xmATVV/WaRkY= Received: by 10.229.246.136 with SMTP id ly8mr1955636qcb.237.1290186259959; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:04:19 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: ivoras@gmail.com Received: by 10.229.231.143 with HTTP; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:03:39 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4CE6ACEF.4000303@freebsd.org> References: <4CE69CFA.4030803@freebsd.org> <20101119171359.65b43213@ernst.jennejohn.org> <4CE6ACEF.4000303@freebsd.org> From: Ivan Voras Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:03:39 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: z2nBf7Dj-PKtDVP_blZCK97UkaA Message-ID: To: Andriy Gapon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A big-ish machine, cannot boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:04:21 -0000 On 19 November 2010 17:59, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 19/11/2010 18:57 Ivan Voras said the following: >> On 19 November 2010 17:13, Gary Jennejohn wr= ote: >>> On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:51:22 +0200 >>> Andriy Gapon 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.