Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 09:43:34 -0700 From: "Jack Vogel" <jfvogel@gmail.com> To: "Gavin Atkinson" <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: long timeout on boot Message-ID: <2a41acea0606020943j1843d949kf8d25e3164255e43@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1149241101.60897.58.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> References: <2a41acea0606011530wf7bca5du23711fbfbfbc81@mail.gmail.com> <1149241101.60897.58.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>
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On 6/2/06, Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 15:30 -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: > > Both on my own machine, and on systems in our test group's lab, we > > notice these long (like 2min maybe?) delays near the end of boot. It > > seems to be ATA/SATA related. It has just announced the one disk > > it discovered, then shows the CPUs launched, and then it just sits > > printing nothing for, like I said, maybe a minute or two. Finally it will > > complete boot and all seems to be fine. > > Can you put a verbose dmesg up with debug.fdc.debugflags=255 set from > the loader? > > I suspect you'll find it's floppy-related. Try setting > hint.fdc.0.disabled="1" from the loader and seeing if it goes away. YUP, I hadnt looked before, but during the whole timeout the floppy access light is on. There were some messages during boot from the controller as well. PFFT, floppies, who needs em, I configured it out and that eliminated the problem :) So, do you need debug info on this, I could reenable and capture if its helpful, otherwise I'm good at this point :) Thanks for the tip Gavin. Jack
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