On 10/25/2011 08:15 AM, VinÃcius Zavam wrote:
2011/10/25 J. Kuczewski<jkuczew...@bnl.gov>:
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.
---
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
i've got something like this. check it out:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-January/054551.html
i remembered this issue when reading your e-mail this morning.
unfortunately i couldn't fix the issue.
just saw the answer from Paulo[1] today (LOL).. but you, John, are
using "the same" entry with grub2.. so.... sadness ;-(
nowadays i'm using 10.0current with my asus 1005pe (eeepc) and
everything runs like a charm. i still have the same pavilion; maybe
one day it will run freebsd again (even if it needs 30min to boot)<3
[1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-March/055733.html
Thanks for the links. I have a spare disk that I'll make just for
FreeBSD, just to see if this is a partitioning problem with the BTX
loader, or something BIOS related. Just to note, it doesn't matter if I
use GRUB2 or FreeBSD's boot manager, both were tested.
Thanks for the idea.
Cheers,
-John Kuczewski
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