> 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. Tom -- Public Keys: PGP KeyID = 0x5F22FDC1 GnuPG KeyID = 0x620836CF
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
Hello, this is a known problem with Intel Skylake CPUs. Legacy boot os dead slow, UEFI boot is blazing fast. Have a look at this thread, it contains some more informations: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2015-December/059037.html As far as I know now one has found / analyzed the root cause of this until now. Regard, On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 15:36:10 -0500 "Thomas Laus" <lausts at acm.org> 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. > > Tom > > -- > Public Keys: > PGP KeyID = 0x5F22FDC1 > GnuPG KeyID = 0x620836CF > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable at freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"-- Homepage: www.yamagi.org XMPP: yamagi at yamagi.org GnuPG/GPG: 0xEFBCCBCB