Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:15:03 -0300 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Vin=EDcius_Zavam?= <egypcio@googlemail.com> To: "J. Kuczewski" <jkuczewski@bnl.gov> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Slow load time to /boot/loader (3rd stage loader) Message-ID: <CA%2BKr6DPrribjQOVup1=xXbMrBOf691nP8fnHW-2n5CQHwQRAvQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4EA63A1B.9040407@bnl.gov> References: <4EA63A1B.9040407@bnl.gov>
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2011/10/25 J. Kuczewski <jkuczewski@bnl.gov>: > Hi all, > > I have recently installed 9.0-RC1 on my Thinkpad X201 and have noticed > severe (~20 mins) latency to get to the third stage bootloader > (/boot/loader). This is system triple booted with Windows 7 and Arch Linu= x > using the GRUB 2 bootmanager. FreeBSD is not on a extended partition, if = it > matters. I have tested two BIOS disk configurations, one with AHCI and th= e > other with IDE compatibility mode. IDE mode is comparatively faster, but > still slower than expected (~3 mins). To see if this was a regression, I > installed 8.2, and it has the same exact effect. Booting off of USB stick > loads fine (e.g. the installer). The following is my notes with the > different BIOS configurations with a link to the verbose dmesgs for each.= .. > > With AHCI enabled: > =A0 =A0o =A0dmesg output: > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/45307545/dmesg_logs/dmesg_ahci.log > =A0 =A0o =A0Timeline: > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0~05 mins - Loading /boot/default/loader.conf appears. > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0~16 mins - /boot/kernel/kernel <args> displayed. > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0~20 mins - Welcome to FreeBSD boot prompt. > > With IDE compatibility enabled: > =A0 =A0o =A0dmesg output: > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/45307545/dmesg_logs/dmesg_ide.log > =A0 =A0o =A0Timeline: > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0~02 mins - Loading /boot/default/loader.conf and /boot/ker= nel/kernel > <args> is displayed at once. > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0~03 mins - Welcome to FreeBSD boot prompt is displayed. > > After the boot prompt, startup is normal with no slowdowns to the login > prompt. > > --- > Current BIOS and ECP versions (output from Linux): > --- > # dmidecode -s bios-version > 6QET52WW (1.22) > # dmidecode -t 11 > # dmidecode 2.11 > SMBIOS 2.6 present. > > Handle 0x0027, DMI type 11, 5 bytes > OEM Strings > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0String 1: IBM ThinkPad Embedded Controller -[6QHT30WW-1.11= =A0 =A0]- > > --- > FreeBSD GRUB2 entry: > --- > menuentry "FreeBSD 9.0-RC1" { > =A0 =A0insmod ufs2 > =A0 =A0set root=3D(hd0,3) > =A0 =A0chainloader +1 > } > > Any guidance to determine the slow down of this loading problem would be > great. > > Thank you for your time... > > Cheers, > =A0 =A0-John Kuczewski i've got something like this. check it out: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-January/054551.html i remembered this issue when reading your e-mail this morning. unfortunately i couldn't fix the issue. just saw the answer from Paulo[1] today (LOL).. but you, John, are using "the same" entry with grub2.. so.... sadness ;-( nowadays i'm using 10.0current with my asus 1005pe (eeepc) and everything runs like a charm. i still have the same pavilion; maybe one day it will run freebsd again (even if it needs 30min to boot) <3 [1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-March/055733.htm= l --=20 Vin=EDcius Zavam profiles.google.com/egypcio
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