Re: Booting question

2009-05-12 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 11 May 2009 03:57:21 Michel Di Croci wrote:

 Yes it is in. And it's not the sendmail that is slow, it's the detection /
 kernel step... not the service steps.

Please choose verbose boot from the menu and hand-copy the lines right 
before,right after and during which the hang occurs. You can use scroll-lock 
and page up/down to find them again after it scrolls up.
Disable any X/G/Kdm display manager you might have auto started or press ctrl-
alt-f1 to get back to the original console.
-- 
Mel
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Re: Booting question

2009-05-11 Thread Warren Block

On Sun, 10 May 2009, Michel Di Croci wrote:


When I boot, it takes about 5 mins before being up and running. Since it's
my first FreeBSD, I didn't thought there was an issue, but I think there's
one ;)

I have a P4 2.8 HT which is too bad computer and I really think the issue is
in freeBSD and the Giant Locked and stuff like that. The computer stays in a
waiting mode for about 3 minutes or something like that. It's unbearable,
however, since I reboot like once in a month, it's not that bad ;) But I'm
still wondering why it's so slow.


It would help to know what shows on the screen.  But my first guess is 
sendmail trying to get a FQDN and timing out.


What happens if you press ctrl-c when it's waiting?

Second guess is that you have some external USB device that your BIOS is 
trying to use for booting.  Without knowing what the screen shows, it's 
hard to say.


-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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Re: Booting question

2009-05-10 Thread Glen Barber
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Michel Di Croci
michel.dicr...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello!

 When I boot, it takes about 5 mins before being up and running. Since it's
 my first FreeBSD, I didn't thought there was an issue, but I think there's
 one ;)

 I have a P4 2.8 HT which is too bad computer and I really think the issue is
 in freeBSD and the Giant Locked and stuff like that. The computer stays in a
 waiting mode for about 3 minutes or something like that. It's unbearable,
 however, since I reboot like once in a month, it's not that bad ;) But I'm
 still wondering why it's so slow.

 I have compiled my own kernel, removed driver I don't use but I kept all usb
 drivers. Like I told you, it's really the USB part that seems to be long to
 load. It's like it's waiting for a stabilization mode that is never coming.

 Anyone had that kind of issue? I'm running 7.2 and it's been there since the
 installation with 7.1.


Did it hang with GENERIC?  If not, do a diff on your config and the
GENERIC config, and paste it for us.

(On a side note, is your machine's `hostname` in /etc/hosts?  I've had
a problem with sendmail hanging for some time because the hostname was
not resolvable.  Just a side-thought.)

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Re: Booting question

2009-05-10 Thread Glen Barber
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Michel Di Croci
michel.dicr...@gmail.com wrote:

 Did it hang with GENERIC?  If not, do a diff on your config and the
 GENERIC config, and paste it for us.

 If I remember correctly, yes but I don,t remember. Can you tell me if I
 don't want to lose my actual kernel, how can I make a new kernel and install
 it not as principal one.


This is explained in the handbook and the manual pages.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/kernelconfig-trouble.html

You want to use 'nextboot' and specify the kernel location.


 (On a side note, is your machine's `hostname` in /etc/hosts?  I've had
 a problem with sendmail hanging for some time because the hostname was
 not resolvable.  Just a side-thought.)

 Yes it is in. And it's not the sendmail that is slow, it's the detection /
 kernel step... not the service steps.


If you're using 7.2 (-RELEASE I assume?) and this has been happening
since 7.1, it's not something that has changed recently.  I don't
recall seeing issues like this on this list (or stable@ for that
matter).  Perhaps it is a hardware problem, but I've never been good
at diagnosing hardware issues.

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Re: Booting question

2009-05-10 Thread Michel Di Croci
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.comwrote:

 On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Michel Di Croci
 michel.dicr...@gmail.com wrote:
  Hello!
 
  When I boot, it takes about 5 mins before being up and running. Since
 it's
  my first FreeBSD, I didn't thought there was an issue, but I think
 there's
  one ;)
 
  I have a P4 2.8 HT which is too bad computer and I really think the issue
 is
  in freeBSD and the Giant Locked and stuff like that. The computer stays
 in a
  waiting mode for about 3 minutes or something like that. It's
 unbearable,
  however, since I reboot like once in a month, it's not that bad ;) But
 I'm
  still wondering why it's so slow.
 
  I have compiled my own kernel, removed driver I don't use but I kept all
 usb
  drivers. Like I told you, it's really the USB part that seems to be long
 to
  load. It's like it's waiting for a stabilization mode that is never
 coming.
 
  Anyone had that kind of issue? I'm running 7.2 and it's been there since
 the
  installation with 7.1.
 

 Did it hang with GENERIC?  If not, do a diff on your config and the
 GENERIC config, and paste it for us.


If I remember correctly, yes but I don,t remember. Can you tell me if I
don't want to lose my actual kernel, how can I make a new kernel and install
it not as principal one.



 (On a side note, is your machine's `hostname` in /etc/hosts?  I've had
 a problem with sendmail hanging for some time because the hostname was
 not resolvable.  Just a side-thought.)


Yes it is in. And it's not the sendmail that is slow, it's the detection /
kernel step... not the service steps.

Michel



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 Glen Barber

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Re: booting question

2002-10-05 Thread

no, it didn't help.
it's still trying to boot from da0s1a insted of da0s1e.


 # The root device and filesystem type can be compiled in;
 # this provides a fallback option if the root device cannot
 # be correctly guessed by the bootstrap code, or an override if
 # the RB_DFLTROOT flag (-r) is specified when booting the kernel.
 #
 options ROOTDEVNAME=\ufs:da0s2e\

  (I've no idea why, but /boot.config in this case doesn't work)

 If it's not mounted, how can it be read?

 
  Regards, (? ?)
  Ilia Chipitsine ( ???)
 
 
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Re: booting question

2002-10-05 Thread Jud

10/5/2002 5:14:51 AM,  ??? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

no, it didn't help.
it's still trying to boot from da0s1a insted of da0s1e.


 # The root device and filesystem type can be compiled in;
 # this provides a fallback option if the root device cannot
 # be correctly guessed by the bootstrap code, or an override if
 # the RB_DFLTROOT flag (-r) is specified when booting the kernel.
 #
 options ROOTDEVNAME=\ufs:da0s2e\

  (I've no idea why, but /boot.config in this case doesn't work)

 If it's not mounted, how can it be read?

 
  Regards, (? ?)
  Ilia Chipitsine ( ???)

Just curious - I think the technical level of this discussion is probably 
way beyond me, but what does /etc/fstab say?

Jud



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Re: booting question

2002-10-04 Thread Ruben de Groot

On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 08:27:17AM +0600,  ??? typed:
 Dear Sirs,
 
 how to force booting from da0s1e, not from da0s1a ??

Read LINT:

#
# The root device and filesystem type can be compiled in;
# this provides a fallback option if the root device cannot 
# be correctly guessed by the bootstrap code, or an override if
# the RB_DFLTROOT flag (-r) is specified when booting the kernel.
#
options ROOTDEVNAME=\ufs:da0s2e\

 (I've no idea why, but /boot.config in this case doesn't work)

If it's not mounted, how can it be read?

 
 Regards, (? ?)
 Ilia Chipitsine ( ???)
 
 
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