On 2021-01-29 22:24, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss wrote:
On 30. Jan 2021, at 03:43, Chris <oi...@sunos.info> wrote:
On 2021-01-29 17:18, Andy Fiddaman wrote:
On Fri, 29 Jan 2021, Chris wrote:
; OK just dragged a Dell Optiplex 790 off the shelf
; with a 4 core 8 thread i5 CPU in it, and as much RAM
; as I could jam in it.
; BIOS:
; boot UEFI
; SATA ahci
; I've tried 2 different Nvidia cards, as well as the
; intermal video. The results are the same;
; 2.5 minutes to get to the OI banner/boot options.
; An additiona 3.5 to draw the OI banner/options screen.
; It takes ~0.5 seconds to draw each cell. To be clear;
; I'm not complaining here. Rather, I'm trying to
; pinpoint WTF is going wrong in hopes of overcoming
; the problem. I've attempted to put OI on 3 different
; computers now, and the results have all been
; underwhelming in the console dept.
;
; Any thoughts?
If you can press <escape> really early in the boot process, you get the
first loader prompt (I forget exactly how it looks). At that point,
enter "-t" without the quotes and press return. That will keep in
VGA mode, which might well be faster/usable.
Huge thanks for the reply, Andy!
Yes, it made a difference. Drawing each cell only takes 0.25
seconds. :-P
So somewhat faster, anyway. It's funny. It starts out quite
fast. The speed I normally experience with other stuff. It
writes
Available consoles:
text VGA ...
ttya port 0x3f8
ttyb ... not present
ttyc ... not present
ttyd ... not present
null software device
spin software device
Right at this point is where it drops to about 1/2 or slower speed.
Then, cell by cell, it prints
console ttyb failed to initialize
console ttyc failed to initialize
console ttyd failed to initialize
This is the point where you have got hint about why this happens. The same
defect
is with virtualbox, when you have configured host pipe for serial device.
The three lines above tell us that ttya was successfully initialized, so it
must
have to do about ttya.
OK I neglected to note that this was including the advice by Andy to drop to
text mode, by interrupting loader, and entering -t at the prompt followed by
enter. It's clear that it was attempting serial mode -- note the port 0x3f8
Without interrupting loader, text and ttya return:
text VESA (800x600 - 1600x1200 depending on what I'm hooked up to)
ttya ... not present
I'm attempting it again via Legacy where
text VESA 1600x1200
ttya ... not present
Choosing 5 (options), followed by 5 (verbose) has already taken 20
minutes (it's still in progress). I think I'm just going to try to
install it and work on it further from the internal disk. In hopes
of getting at least a small speed increase from 0 to actual boot.
I greatly appreciate your insight on this, Toomas.
If you comment out (I am assuming you have installed OS) the line:
console="text, ttya, ttyb, ttyc, ttyd”
from /boot/defaults/loader.conf, you will probably find the console is much
better.
rgds,
toomas
--Chris
Then clears the screen to draw the OI banner, and boot options.
Which takes even longer.
Not sure where to look from here. But I really appreciate your
chiming in, Andy.
Thanks!
--Chris
Andy
--
~10yrs a FreeBSD maintainer of ~160 ports
~40yrs of UNIX
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