ProLiant DL360 G4p: ciss(4) boottime oddity

[Douglas Berry]

On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:30:16 +0200, Albert Shih wrote:
>  Le 19/10/2006  10:31:27+0700, Evgueni V. Gavrilov a écrit
> > ehlo
> > 
> > I've got several ProLiant DL360 G4p servers running RELENG_6.
> > Everything is ok except boottime: boot process becomes frozen for several minutes after these messages
> > 
> > Oct 18 16:38:35 siziph kernel: da0 at ciss0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> > Oct 18 16:38:35 siziph kernel: da0: <COMPAQ RAID 1  VOLUME OK> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device
> > Oct 18 16:38:35 siziph kernel: da0: 135.168MB/s transfers
> > Oct 18 16:38:35 siziph kernel: da0: 286095MB (585922680 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 36472C)
> > 
> > Several minutes later boot process proceeds
> > 
> > Oct 18 16:38:35 siziph kernel: GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider acd0 is iso9660/FreeBSD_Install.
> > Oct 18 16:38:35 siziph kernel: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a
> > 
> > One of those servers (DL360 G4p) still out of production, so I can utilize it for investigation on the trouble. Are there any developers/hackers who interested in solving of the trouble?
> > 
> > Also I would be glad to receive advises since I ain't kernel hacker :)
> 
> I've many DL/ML and all have this «problem», fortunaly after there boot
> there working very well.
> 
> Maybe not very big problem ?
> 

I've had success in speeding up the boot on a DL360-G4 by disabling 
the floppy :-) in the BIOS.

cheers,
doug