Hello Jeremy, 1. it's a FreeBSD-9.1-p3 (RELEASE) (sorry i haven't the exact output because i'm not at work, but i'm sure of the release and version). 2. I have only 2 300GB disks in a RAID-1 on a perc H310 3. No ZFS was there, it's UFS2 without tuning options.
-- Best regards, Loïc BLOT, UNIX systems, security and network expert http://www.unix-experience.fr Le samedi 22 juin 2013 à 13:49 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick a écrit : > On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 09:37:37PM +0200, Loc BLOT wrote: > > Hi all ! > > Thanks for the very good support of Dell R320 hardware, perc H310 is > > well supported, BCM5720 seems to work correctly and performances are > > great. > > The only problem i have found is very strange. The FreeBSD bootloader > > take many times to load, 30sec-2minutes to boot the kernel and show the > > bootloader menu. After that, the system boots properly, at a normal > > speed. > > Is there any issue or optimization i can do ? > > The OpenBSD bootloader doesn't have this problem. > > 1. What FreeBSD version exactly? (Please don't say "9.1", we need to > know the full version, e.g. 9.1-RELEASE, or if you built your own we > need uname -a output (you can hide the machine name)) > > 2. How many disks are in the machine? > > 3. Are any of the disks used for ZFS? > > There have been **many** improvements to the FreeBSD bootloader with > regards to things taking a long time on boot-up in semi-recent days, but > answers to the above questions will determine that. >
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