FW: 6.1 hangs after launching CPU on DL380

[Geoff Buckingham]

> 
> I am not sure that this is an issue specific to proliant, but...
> 
> I just finished an install of 6.1 on a dl380 with dual xeon 3.2 procs. 
> things seem fine, but when it is booting, it hangs for about 4 minutes
> after the "Launching CPU x" phase. Boot continues normally after that,
> but the delay is disconcerting for some reason.
> 
> anyone dealt with this.
> 
Do you get this with non SMP kernels? We have seen hangs, or pauses on
machines with ciss controllers during GEOM setup. The length of the pause
varied with the number of GEOMs loaded. It was ususally around a minute 
with a minimal set. It would seem logical the period would increase with 
more disk arrays. (We only had one).

My own, untested, theory is GEOM is tasting the passX devices provided by 
the ciss driver and becoming confused by something.

Currently we just live with the pause:-(