A big-ish machine, cannot boot

[Ivan Voras]

On 19 November 2010 17:59, Andriy Gapon <avg at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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! :-)

Yes, it does bug me. It looked like a kernel hang (not loader) since
the machine didn't respond to ctrl-alt-del, only on cold boot.

No BIOS options seemed to help - not disabling SMP nor trying
different memory options or timings.