A big-ish machine, cannot boot

[Ivan Voras]

On 19 November 2010 17:13, Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:51:22 +0200
> Andriy Gapon <avg at 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.  The 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!