Re: UEFI & ZFS

2016-02-14 Thread Thomas Laus
> I've observed the slowness only on the local console, I haven't tested > the seriel console. Put the FreeBSD legcay installation usb stick into > the box, select it as boot device and watch the cursor spinning for > about 10 minutens until the kernel boots. Do the same with an UEFI > installation

Re: UEFI & ZFS

2016-02-14 Thread Yamagi Burmeister
Hello, I've observed the slowness only on the local console, I haven't tested the seriel console. Put the FreeBSD legcay installation usb stick into the box, select it as boot device and watch the cursor spinning for about 10 minutens until the kernel boots. Do the same with an UEFI installation st

Re: UEFI & ZFS

2016-02-14 Thread Daniel Braniss
> On 14 Feb 2016, at 11:52, Yamagi Burmeister wrote: > > 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/201

Re: UEFI & ZFS

2016-02-14 Thread Yamagi Burmeister
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

UEFI + ZFS i5 Dmesg

2016-02-13 Thread Thomas Laus
It looks like my reply to the verbose dmesg.boot did not make it to the list. I was able to boot the PC from a MSDOS 6.22 floppy using a USB floppy drive. I also can load OpenBSD 5.8 on this PC and it boots normally. My verbose dmesg.boot: Table 'FACP' at 0xbf24f4b8 Table 'APIC' at 0xbf24f5c8 A

Re: UEFI & ZFS

2016-02-12 Thread Steven Hartland
On 12/02/2016 20:36, Thomas Laus 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

UEFI & ZFS

2016-02-12 Thread Thomas Laus
> 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 r2953