FreeBSD 10.3 slow boot on Supermicro X11SSW-F

[Kurt Jaeger]

Hi!

> I installed FreeBSD 10.3 on brand new machine Supermicro X11SSW-F. It 
> sits on top of 4x 1TB Samsung SSDs on ZFS RAIDZ2.
> 
> The booting is painfully slow from BTX to menu to kernel loading.

I have the same problem on a Supermicro X11SSH-LN4F.

> Progress indicated by \ | / - characters is changing by speed of 1 
> character per 2 seconds.
> The whole boot process takes about 10 minutes.
> 
> I found this blog post solving the same problem
> http://smyck.net/2016/06/15/freebsd-slow-zfs-bootloader/

I'll test that solution. Thanks for the pointer!

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