A big-ish machine, cannot boot

[Andriy Gapon]

on 19/11/2010 18:57 Ivan Voras said the following:
> On 19 November 2010 17:13, Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:51:22 +0200
>> Andriy Gapon <avg at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>>> on 19/11/2010 17:41 Ivan Voras said the following:
>>>> Fujitsu TX300
>>>
>>> [Thunderbird 3 sometimes fails quoting while replying - blame it]
>>>
>>> Perhaps I am wrong, but isn't the "twirly" shown by the loader, still?
>>> Not sure if the kernel does that.
>>>
>>
>> Yup, that's the boot loader.  The kernel spits out printfs.
> 
> Good news, of sorts - I left while I went for dinner and apparently it
> did boot in the meantime. So it's not a complete hang, it just takes
> unexpectedly long (10+ minutes?)
> 
> I'm currently running "make -j24 buildworld" and once it boots it
> looks very fast!

You ought to determine a cause of the long boot, though.
No compromises or excuses! :-)

-- 
Andriy Gapon