On 2012-02-16 19:21, Alex Goncharov wrote:
,--- I/Alex (Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:34:36 -0500) ----* | There was one other odd thing that I noticed then: while Debian booted | without a delay, FreeBSD 8 made a long pause after passing the boot | menu: it would display the '/' character and sit there for some | non-trivial amount of seconds. I assumed that it was doing some BIOS | querying, and with BIOS (firmware?) being damaged, it took the system | some time to figure things out... perhaps it was re-querying BIOS, | seeing the insane value of 0 for an interface's Ethernet address (I | have many machines running FreeBSD, including multiple laptops, and | this machine is unique in the long bootup pause). `-------------------------------------------------* ,--- Rares Aioanei (Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:08:14 +0200) ----* | I get the same on my HP Pavilion dv9750 laptop, but with an intact BIOS, | afaict. And that happens regardless of the wi-fi card's state (eg | disabled or enabled from the hardware button). Maybe this helps. `--------------------------------------------------------* To add to the fact base: I don't have any of this with my HP Pavilion DV6-1334US: neither with FreeBSD 8 nor 9 (upgraded that laptop two days ago, too.)
FreeBSD 8.x has a memory test that takes place quite early during kernel startup - I have seen a system with 128Gb ram hang for 1-2 minuttes on this account - quite annoying delay if you ask me. There were discussions about removing this memtest feature in FreeBSD 9 but I do not know if it made it into the tree in time... but you'll need to have lots of memory for this to kickin - not very likely with your laptop.
Another similar boot delay/hang seen with FreeBSD 8.x with certain SATA controllers. I have a FreeBSD 8.x system that hangs exactly 75 seconds (timeout?) during (every) kernel startup when running SATA in AHCI mode (setup within the BIOS) - if switched back to SATA IDE (compatible) mode the system kernel starts instantly with out the 75 sec (timeout) hang. This problem seems resolved by the SATA/AHCI driver overhaul that FreeBSD 9 got.
Both problems are visually identical (as far as I remember) - an unexplainable delay during kernel startup - it sleeps/hangs before anything is printed on screen...
HTH /Uffe _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
