Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:02:14 +0100 From: Roger Olofsson <raggen@passagen.se> To: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: faster booting Message-ID: <47CF1866.7070109@passagen.se> In-Reply-To: <200803052153.m25LrVJ8035825@m.it.okstate.edu> References: <200803052153.m25LrVJ8035825@m.it.okstate.edu>
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Martin McCormick skrev: > I second the statement about BIOS checks taking a long > time. After working with many FreeBSD boxes, mostly Dells and a > few IBM servers, they can take forever (2 to 3 minutes) which > seems like forever when one is trying to get back on line quickly. > If one is using a serial console, the \|/-\|/- of the > kernel loading doesn't start until most of that time is gone. I > am guessing the actual FreeBSD kernel bootup is maybe 30 seconds > or so. If you have a SCSI bus, be sure the settling time built > in to the boot process is as short as will still work correctly. > Earlier versions of FreeBSD waited 15 seconds default. I safely > got it down to 1.5 seconds and might have even gotten it shorter > if I really knew how long it took the bus to settle. > > Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK > Systems Engineer > OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > I tend to not reboot machines...FreeBSD somehow makes that possible. But If I do a shutdown there's the CTRL-D to get it back up fast.... Just my nickels worth. /R
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