System hangs for 30 minutes before booting normally into
freebsd 6.0
Lowell Gilbert
freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Mon Jan 16 06:42:51 PST 2006
Ravi Kumar <ravee_26 at yahoo.com> writes:
> Hello,
> I am a new convert to freebsd 6.0. I installed it
> on one of my old machine - a celeron 333 MHz, 98 MB
> RAM, with ISA slots. While installing it on my system,
> I faced a problem that it took a long time to load the
> freebsd installer menu. So I rebooted and selected the
> FreeBSD installation in verbose mode.
>
> This is the verbose output snippet I recieved:
>
> ...
> pci0: <bridge> at device 73 (no drivers attached)
> pci0: <display, VGA> at device 16.0 (no driver
> attached)
> ex_isa_identify()
> ata: ata0 already exists; skipping it
> ata: ata1 already exists; skipping it
>
> pnp_identify: Trying Read_Port at 203
> pnp_identify: Trying Read_Port at 243
> pnp_identify: Trying Read_Port at 283
> pnp_identify: Trying Read_Port at 2c3
> pnp_identify: Trying Read_Port at 303
> pnp_identify: Trying Read_Port at 343
> pnp_identify: Trying Read_Port at 383
> ...
>
> The problem is the last 8 lines above. It is I believe
> scanning some ports and is taking such a long time.
> After this the normal booting is quite fast.
>
> Is there any way I can disable this process of
> scanning that is taking place? After installing
> freebsd, each time I boot into it, it hangs for 30
> minutes at the code snippet above.
>
> My uname -a command gave the following output.
>
> FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 3
> 09:36:13 UTC 2005
> root at x64.samco.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>
>
> Looking forward to a reply to this problem.
This is unlikely to solve your problem, but it will ease tracking down
what probe is giving you problems: build a custom kernel removing
devices you aren't using. See if you get any more information there.
Then try disabling ACPI; I wouldn't be surprised if your system had
no support for it anyway. And maybe try a verbose boot without ACPI.
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