Wanted to ask about it for quite some time.
I've got two 20G disks installed with basically same geometry. They were
partitioned (by linux fdisk) approx. similarly (+/- 10 cylinders):
part. 1: ~1-250
part. 2 (Extended): ~751-everything that remains
part. 3: ~251-500
part. 4: ~501-750
There's FreeBSD (4.7-RELEASE) installed on ad0s3 and ad1s3. There's
FreeBSD bootmanager installed. Instance from ad1s3 boots without any
problems. Now, booting instance on ad0s3, beginning with kernel loading
and through modules from loader.conf loading, takes unnaturally long
time, "spinning bar" ticks happen at rate about 1 per sec. When kernel
and modules are loaded, things progress as usual. In fact, I installed
the instance on ad1s3 just to avoid this weirdness. I believe this
behaviour started somewhere about 4.6-RELEASE. I somehow do not recall
seeing this on 4.3-4.5, and I surely was using this scheme of
partitioning then. I'm in no way expert, so looking through bootloader
source didn't reveal anything to me.
Any thoughts on what happens?
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