Hello, this is a known problem with Intel Skylake CPUs. Legacy boot os dead slow, UEFI boot is blazing fast. Have a look at this thread, it contains some more informations:
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2015-December/059037.html As far as I know now one has found / analyzed the root cause of this until now. Regard, On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 15:36:10 -0500 "Thomas Laus" <lau...@acm.org> wrote: > > I have a new Asus H170-Plus-D3 motherboard that will be used for a DOM0 Xen > > Server. It uses an Intel i5-6300 processor and a Samsung 840 EVO SSD. I > > would like to use ZFS on this new installation. The Xen Kernel does not > > have UEFI support at this time, so I installed FreeBSD CURRENT r295345 in > > 'legacy mode'. It takes about 7 minutes to go from the first '|' character > > to getting the 'beastie' menu. I changed the BIOS to UEFI and did another > > installation. The boot process goes in an instant. > > Several others have the same problem. See here on the freebsd forums: > > http://tinyurl.com/z9oldkc > > That is my exact problem. It takes 4 minutes to get a complete 'beastie' > menu and 7 minutes 34 seconds to login. > > Tom > > -- > Public Keys: > PGP KeyID = 0x5F22FDC1 > GnuPG KeyID = 0x620836CF > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- Homepage: www.yamagi.org XMPP: yam...@yamagi.org GnuPG/GPG: 0xEFBCCBCB _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
