slow bootloader on Dell R320

[Loïc BLOT]

Hello Jeremy,
1. it's a FreeBSD-9.1-p3 (RELEASE) (sorry i haven't the exact output
because i'm not at work, but i'm sure of the release and version).
2. I have only 2 300GB disks in a RAID-1 on a perc H310
3. No ZFS was there, it's UFS2 without tuning options.

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Best regards,
Loïc BLOT, 
UNIX systems, security and network expert
http://www.unix-experience.fr


Le samedi 22 juin 2013 à 13:49 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick a écrit :
> On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 09:37:37PM +0200, Loc BLOT wrote:
> > Hi all !
> > Thanks for the very good support of Dell R320 hardware, perc H310 is
> > well supported, BCM5720 seems to work correctly and performances are
> > great.
> > The only problem i have found is very strange. The FreeBSD bootloader
> > take many times to load, 30sec-2minutes to boot the kernel and show the
> > bootloader menu. After that, the system boots properly, at a normal
> > speed.
> > Is there any issue or optimization i can do ?
> > The OpenBSD bootloader doesn't have this problem.
> 
> 1. What FreeBSD version exactly?  (Please don't say "9.1", we need to
> know the full version, e.g. 9.1-RELEASE, or if you built your own we
> need uname -a output (you can hide the machine name))
> 
> 2. How many disks are in the machine?
> 
> 3. Are any of the disks used for ZFS?
> 
> There have been **many** improvements to the FreeBSD bootloader with
> regards to things taking a long time on boot-up in semi-recent days, but
> answers to the above questions will determine that.
> 
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