Hi, On 11 February 2011 11:33, Mark Powell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Daniel O'Connor wrote: [...] > I suspected BIOS, that's why I was going to get a new motherboard. I've > always had problems getting gptzfsboot working on this hardware and there > are no more BIOS updates now. That's why I have ufs root, as it only worked > intermitantly.
> Then I wondered what the hell was going on in the loader that took >60s and > seemingly touched every drive. I assumed it was FBSD that was tasting all > the drives. > Cheers. AFAIK if you have gptzfsboot on your drives it will probe the partitions on your drives, which can take a while. So if you suspect ZFS it might really be an option to replace gptzfsboot with gptboot. I recently changed the configuration of my home server from 1x80GiB SATA HDD (booting & /-pool) and 4x400GiB PATA HDD for zraid-Pool on geli to 2x2TiB SATA HDD with gmirrored /boot and the rest for a geli encrypted zmirror (including /). For me it feels as if it takes a few seconds longer for the loader to appear. The latter uses GPT and labels where possible. HTH Christian _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
