From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 2 09:38:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 268D716A44B for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 09:38:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from mail-gw4.york.ac.uk (mail-gw4.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1898D43D55 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 09:38:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from buffy.york.ac.uk (buffy-128.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.160]) by mail-gw4.york.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k529cl5b020684; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 10:38:47 +0100 (BST) Received: from buffy.york.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k529cVb4068782; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 10:38:31 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: (from ga9@localhost) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k529cLeE068781; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 10:38:21 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: buffy.york.ac.uk: ga9 set sender to gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk using -f From: Gavin Atkinson To: Jack Vogel In-Reply-To: <2a41acea0606011530wf7bca5du23711fbfbfbc81@mail.gmail.com> References: <2a41acea0606011530wf7bca5du23711fbfbfbc81@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 10:38:21 +0100 Message-Id: <1149241101.60897.58.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-York-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-York-MailScanner-From: gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: long timeout on boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 09:38:57 -0000 On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 15:30 -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: > Both on my own machine, and on systems in our test group's lab, we > notice these long (like 2min maybe?) delays near the end of boot. It > seems to be ATA/SATA related. It has just announced the one disk > it discovered, then shows the CPUs launched, and then it just sits > printing nothing for, like I said, maybe a minute or two. Finally it will > complete boot and all seems to be fine. Can you put a verbose dmesg up with debug.fdc.debugflags=255 set from the loader? I suspect you'll find it's floppy-related. Try setting hint.fdc.0.disabled="1" from the loader and seeing if it goes away. Gavin