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
Linux 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 the 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:
o dmesg output:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/45307545/dmesg_logs/dmesg_ahci.log
o Timeline:
~05 mins - Loading /boot/default/loader.conf appears.
~16 mins - /boot/kernel/kernel <args> displayed.
~20 mins - Welcome to FreeBSD boot prompt.
With IDE compatibility enabled:
o dmesg output:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/45307545/dmesg_logs/dmesg_ide.log
o Timeline:
~02 mins - Loading /boot/default/loader.conf and
/boot/kernel/kernel <args> is displayed at once.
~03 mins - Welcome to FreeBSD boot prompt is displayed.
After the boot prompt, startup is normal with no slowdowns to the login
prompt.
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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
String 1: IBM ThinkPad Embedded Controller -[6QHT30WW-1.11 ]-
---
FreeBSD GRUB2 entry:
---
menuentry "FreeBSD 9.0-RC1" {
insmod ufs2
set root=(hd0,3)
chainloader +1
}
Any guidance to determine the slow down of this loading problem would be
great.
Thank you for your time...
Cheers,
-John Kuczewski
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