slow bootloader on Dell R320

[Loïc BLOT]

Hello,
it's only a 8GB memory server, i haven't this problem with KVM/VWMare VM
with this amount of memory

For possible next questions, i haven't any loader.conf customizations
-- 
Best regards,
Loïc BLOT, 
UNIX systems, security and network expert
http://www.unix-experience.fr


Le samedi 22 juin 2013 à 22:44 +0100, Steven Hartland a écrit :
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Loïc BLOT" <loic.blot at unix-experience.fr>
> > Hi all !
> > Thanks for the very good support of Dell R320 hardware, perc H310 is
> > well supported, BCM5720 seems to work correctly and performances are
> > great.
> > The only problem i have found is very strange. The FreeBSD bootloader
> > take many times to load, 30sec-2minutes to boot the kernel and show the
> > bootloader menu. After that, the system boots properly, at a normal
> > speed.
> > Is there any issue or optimization i can do ?
> > The OpenBSD bootloader doesn't have this problem.
> 
> Do you have a large amount of memory in the machine, if so try adding
> this to /boot/loader.conf
> 
> hw.memtest.tests="0"
> 
>     Regards
>     Steve 
> 
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