From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 30 12:59:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailman.packetdesign.com (dns.packetdesign.com [65.192.41.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8938037B405 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 12:59:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from bubba.packetdesign.com (bubba.packetdesign.com [192.168.0.223]) by mailman.packetdesign.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f9UIkf598527 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 10:46:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie@packetdesign.com) Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.packetdesign.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9UIkfN40301 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 10:46:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <200110301846.f9UIkfN40301@bubba.packetdesign.com> Subject: 30 second delay booting 4.4-stable To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 10:46:41 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL82 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, On a particular piece of hardware, there is a mysterious 30 to 40 second delay when FreeBSD 4.4-stable (as of Sept 27, 2001 8:00 PDT) boots after it probes the disk. Any ideas why and/or how to fix this? We've tried playing with the BIOS to disable the secondary IDE controller, etc., but that doesn't seem to help. The dmesg output with the delay indicated is included below.. Thanks, -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * http://www.packetdesign.com Copyright (c) 1992-2001 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #0: Tue Oct 30 01:24:55 PST 2001 ambrisko@cvs.verniernetworks.com:/usr/build/ambit2/kernel/build/compile/AMBIT Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (731.11-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x686 Stepping = 6 Features=0x383f9ff real memory = 50319360 (49140K bytes) avail memory = 46055424 (44976K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc02f0000. Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled Using $PIR table, 6 entries at 0xc00f13e0 apm0: on motherboard apm: found APM BIOS v1.2, connected at v1.2 npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 atapci0: port 0xd800-0xd80f at device 0.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 *************************************** *** 30 second pause here... why?? *** *************************************** isab0: at device 1.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 sis0: port 0xd400-0xd4ff mem 0xe7800000-0xe7800fff irq 5 at device 1.1 on pci0 sis0: Ethernet address: 00:e0:18:09:50:06 miibus0: on sis0 ukphy0: on miibus0 ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto pci0: at 1.2 irq 9 pci0: at 1.3 irq 9 pcib2: at device 2.0 on pci0 pci1: on pcib2 pci1: at 0.0 irq 11 pci0: (vendor=0x13f6, dev=0x0111) at 5.0 irq 5 pcib3: at device 14.0 on pci0 pci2: on pcib3 dc0: port 0x8800-0x887f mem 0xe5000000-0xe50003ff irq 9 at device 4.0 on pci2 dc0: Ethernet address: 00:80:c8:b9:c4:6d miibus1: on dc0 ukphy1: on miibus1 ukphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto dc1: port 0x8400-0x847f mem 0xe4800000-0xe48003ff irq 11 at device 5.0 on pci2 dc1: Ethernet address: 00:80:c8:b9:c4:6e miibus2: on dc1 ukphy2: on miibus2 ukphy2: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto dc2: port 0x8000-0x807f mem 0xe4000000-0xe40003ff irq 10 at device 6.0 on pci2 dc2: Ethernet address: 00:80:c8:b9:c4:6f miibus3: on dc2 ukphy3: on miibus3 ukphy3: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto dc3: port 0x7800-0x787f mem 0xe3800000-0xe38003ff irq 5 at device 7.0 on pci2 dc3: Ethernet address: 00:80:c8:b9:c4:70 miibus4: on dc3 ukphy4: on miibus4 ukphy4: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto pcib1: on motherboard pci3: on pcib1 orm0: