Booting stuck for about 10minutes

Michael Fuckner michael at fuckner.net
Tue Feb 17 20:34:56 UTC 2015


> Mark Johnston <markjdb at gmail.com> hat am 17. Februar 2015 um 19:49
> geschrieben:
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 10:37 AM, Michael Fuckner <michael at fuckner.net> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a Quanta Q71L-4U Quad Xeon E7-8850 Machine which should run
> > FreeBSD10.1. Currently it is equipped with 512GB, but in the end it should
> > use 3TB.
> >
> > I boot the bootloader and the kernel and then for about 10minutes exactly
> > nothing happens. Not on the physical monitor, not on the serial console.
> > After this 10Minutes it boots up as expected.
> >
> > Any idea how to speed this up? Could this increase when adding more memory?
>
> I think that a boot-time memtest is enabled by default on 10.1. Could
> you try adding hw.memtest.tests=0 to /boot/loader.conf and see if the
> delay goes away?
 
Thank you, this fixed the hang!
 
Regards,
 Michael!


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