UEFI & ZFS

[Steven Hartland]

On 12/02/2016 20:36, Thomas Laus wrote:
>> I have a new Asus H170-Plus-D3 motherboard that will be used for a DOM0 Xen
>> Server.  It uses an Intel i5-6300 processor and a Samsung 840 EVO SSD.  I
>> would like to use ZFS on this new installation.  The Xen Kernel does not
>> have UEFI support at this time, so I installed FreeBSD CURRENT r295345 in
>> 'legacy mode'.  It takes about 7 minutes to go from the first '|' character
>> to getting the 'beastie' menu.  I changed the BIOS to UEFI and did another
>> installation.  The boot process goes in an instant.
> Several others have the same problem. See here on the freebsd forums:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/z9oldkc
>
> That is my exact problem.  It takes 4 minutes to get a complete 'beastie'
> menu and 7 minutes 34 seconds to login.
>
What sort of timings do you see if its a UFS install?

     Regards
     Steve