FreeBSD 10.3 slow boot on Supermicro X11SSW-F

[Steven Hartland]

Does adding the following to /boot/loader.conf make any difference?
hw.memtest.tests="0"

On 28/06/2016 14:59, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> 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.
> 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/
>
> It seems there is some bug in loader in 10.3. If /boot/pmbr, 
> /boot/gptzfsboot and /boot/zfsloader are replaced by files from 
> 11-CURRENT snapshot (from 
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/amd64/11.0-CURRENT/base.txz) 
> the booting speed is back to normal.
>
> Is it know problem? What was changed in loader between 10.3 and 11?
>
>
> Miroslav Lachman
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