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Date:      Fri, 2 Jun 2006 09:43:34 -0700
From:      "Jack Vogel" <jfvogel@gmail.com>
To:        "Gavin Atkinson" <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: long timeout on boot
Message-ID:  <2a41acea0606020943j1843d949kf8d25e3164255e43@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1149241101.60897.58.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>
References:  <2a41acea0606011530wf7bca5du23711fbfbfbc81@mail.gmail.com> <1149241101.60897.58.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>

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On 6/2/06, Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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.

YUP, I hadnt looked before, but during the whole timeout the floppy
access light is on. There were some messages during boot from the
controller as well.

PFFT, floppies, who needs em, I configured it out and that eliminated
the problem :) So, do you need debug info on this, I could reenable
and capture if its helpful, otherwise I'm good at this point :)

Thanks for the tip Gavin.

Jack



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