Need help with New Build -- Skylake

Oliver Pinter oliver.pinter at hardenedbsd.org
Thu Dec 24 11:48:22 UTC 2015


On 12/24/15, Vijay Rajah <me at rvijay.me> wrote:
>
>
> On 12/24/15 12:22 PM, Ian Smith wrote:
>>   ~2 minutes delay there.  sendmail (mta and msp both) at least
>> are unhappy about your hostname, and sleep on it.  I don't know whether
>> that's significant or related to the longer delay you report.  I just
>> skimmed through your dmesg, but didn't spot anything glaringly obvious.
>>
>> FWIW, cheers, Ian
> Ian,
>
> Thanks for taking the time to help me.
>
> The delay is (mostly) before the boot loader menu is presented. Once the
> system starts to boot.. It is pretty fast...
>
> When the system boots, after the BIOS hands over the control to the OS..
> there are 6-7 lines, which give boot loader version etc.. (the last of
> this gives the details of the build host etc..)
>
> Then there is a spinning wheel, an the system just sits there for some
> time.. (even the wheel spins slowly). after 3-4 mins I see it loads the
> /boot/default/loader.conf . After this the menu is loaded..

Confirmed this issue, seems like the forth parser or something forth
related code in slow.
Loading the modules takes ~30 sec, and the kernel takes once more 30 sec.

This is a Gigabyte GA-H170N-WIFI board. I can test some change after Christmas.

>
> so, the issue is long before this dmesg even begins... Unfortunately, I
> do not know how to force a verbose boot before the boot menu...
>
> -Thanks
> Vijay
>
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