On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 10:06:44PM +0000, Bryan Everly wrote: > Hi @tech, > > I just got through building a new desktop machine and thought I'd > install OpenBSD -current on it. The install kernel booted quite fast, > but now that I have the real kernel there, it takes approximately 5 > minutes to boot. The vast majority of the time is spent at the very > beginning where the "spinning text graphic" sits there until it kicks > out a number and then does the next one (not sure what to call that).
That sounds like the part where it's loading the kernel from the disk, which is using BIOS/UEFI functions. Not sure if there's much all that can be done about that. :) > How could I provide appropriate info to help debug this and get a fix > in? I'm guessing that not too many people are running on this CPU. By > the way, all 32 cores show up on it! > 16 cores, half of them are threads. You can disable SMT in the BIOS. ;-) > Thanks. > >
