From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 10 15:40:12 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 679CE10656AC for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:40:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk) Received: from relay0.salford.ac.uk (relay0.salford.ac.uk [146.87.0.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D32898FC1D for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:40:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 79992 invoked by uid 98); 10 Feb 2011 15:13:29 -0000 Received: from 146.87.255.121 by relay0.salford.ac.uk (envelope-from , uid 401) with qmail-scanner-2.01 (clamdscan: 0.96/12655. spamassassin: 3.2.4. Clear:RC:1(146.87.255.121):. Processed in 0.037038 secs); 10 Feb 2011 15:13:29 -0000 Received: from rust.salford.ac.uk (HELO rust.salford.ac.uk) (146.87.255.121) by relay0.salford.ac.uk (qpsmtpd/0.3x.614) with SMTP; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:13:29 +0000 Received: (qmail 73419 invoked by uid 1002); 10 Feb 2011 15:13:27 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 10 Feb 2011 15:13:27 -0000 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:13:27 +0000 (GMT) From: "Mark Powell" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Removing all ZFS support from boot process 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: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:40:12 -0000 Hi, FreeBSD 8.1 r218475. I have a raidz2 with 6x2TB devices; 3x2tb HDD and 3 stripes of 2x1TB HDD. I have ufs / on USB flash. After boot0 starts and the USB boots it displays Drive C: is disk0 etc. for each drive. Then I can hear all the drives making noises. Sounds like the devices are being tasted, with the spinning char. This goes on for sometime. Often the machine hangs solid and I have to reset. It can take 3 or 4 attempts before the OS boots. I can tell it's hung by pressing the caps lock key. If the capslock light doesn't work I hit reset and cross my fingers. It's been like this for as long as I can remember (i.e. many different source trees). How can I fix this? I thought it might be a BIOS fault and not FBSD, so I was considering a new motherboard. However, if I have ufs / can't I stop all this tasting/zfs nonsense at boot and let the kernel do it all later and therefore not susceptible to any possible BIOS faults? I tried to rebuild with: LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT=no in make.conf, but it seems to make no difference. Any ideas? Thanks. -- Mark Powell - UNIX System Administrator - The University of Salford IT Services, Clifford Whitworth Building, Salford University, Manchester, M5 4WT, UK. Tel: +44 161 295 6843 Fax: +44 161 295 6624 www.pgp.com for PGP key