long pause in startup

[Ronald Klop]

I don't know anything about your problem, but does it give good info if  
you boot with verbose on?

Ronald.

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 03:08:29 +0200, Charles Sprickman <spork at bway.net>  
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Any ideas on this one?  This machine (one of those ancient VALinux 2U  
> boxes, Intel L440GX+ board, dual PIII) hangs for a very long time  
> between the second processor launching and geom_mirror kicking in.  It  
> does always boot, but the hang is more than a minute - just enough to  
> make one nervous when rebooting remotely...
>
> Is this just the mirror taking a really long time to initialize, or  
> something more sinister?
>
> Here's part of the dmesg with an indication of where it hangs:
>
> Waiting 5 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
> da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da0: <SEAGATE ST173404LWV 4301> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
> da0: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 63, 16bit), Tagged Queueing  
> Enabled
> da0: 70007MB (143374738 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 8924C)
> da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0
> da1: <SEAGATE ST173404LWV 4301> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
> da1: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 63, 16bit), Tagged Queueing  
> Enabled
> da1: 70007MB (143374738 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 8924C)
> SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
>
> -->> 1 minute+ <<--
>
> GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0 created (id=3517779574).
> GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider da0 detected.
> GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider da1 detected.
> GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider da1 activated.
> GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider da0 activated.
> GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider mirror/gm0 launched.
> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/mirror/gm0s1a
>
> Any info is appreciated, this is just something I wanted to check out  
> before bringing this into production (secondary ns, mx w/pfspamd).
>
> Thanks!
>
> Charles
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  Ronald Klop
  Amsterdam, The Netherlands