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Re: Delay in boot
That sounds about right. I have a Compaq Armada M700 and I lost my
floppy drive (so I never use it). But, OpenBSD 3.3 and -current (as of
a month ago) would probe for the floppy even though one was not
connected.
My solution (since I'll never want to have OpenBSD's bootloader probe
for the floppy) was to edit the code in /usr/src/sys/arch/`uname
-m`/stand/libsa/diskprobe.c and commented both the floppyprobe function
and the call to it.
Then, I rebuilt that code and re-installed the boot loader (man
installboot).
Then, it did not search for the floppy upon boot.
-ME
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-misc@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-misc@openbsd.org] On Behalf
Of Henning Brauer
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 1:39 PM
To: 'Misc @OpenBSD'
Subject: Re: Delay in boot
it IS a bios issue.
if the bios doesn't tell us there is a floppy drive we're not probing
it.
i have several machines withouyt floppy and they do not delay if bios
is set right.
even my laptop with seldom-attached floppy has no delays because the
bios handles that correctly.
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 11:22:12PM +0100, Dom De Vitto wrote:
> Sorry all,
> Obviously not a BIOS issue.
>
> Must remember read-think-think-think-write-send.....
>
>
> Dom
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-misc@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-misc@openbsd.org] On Behalf
> Of Ingmar Koecher [ NETIKUS.NET ltd ]
> Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 10:37 PM
> To: nick@holland-consulting.net; Misc @OpenBSD
> Subject: Re: Delay in boot
>
>
> Thanks - that makes sense then. It's not a big deal - I thought that
> there was some kind of switch for the bootloader that would skip the
> floppy drives alltogether.
>
> I'm coming from the Windows/Linux (lilo, grub) world so I'm not even
> sure right now where the bootloader is, how to install it etc. - got
> some man-page reading to do.
>
> This box is designed to be up 24/7 so booting shouldn't really be an
> issue. But it's always better to boot in 1min than in 2 ;-)
>
> thanks,
> ingmar.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-misc@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-misc@openbsd.org]On
Behalf
> > Of Nick Holland
> > Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 4:34 PM
> > To: Misc @OpenBSD
> > Subject: Re: Delay in boot
> >
> >
> > "Ingmar Koecher [ NETIKUS.NET ltd ]" wrote:
> > >
> > > > fd0 is the floppy, so I guess the BIOS is trying to boot from a
> > > > floppy, tries for around 60 seconds, fails (obviously) and then
> > > > tries the HD, which works.
> > >
> > > Ah, I thought it was the other way round. I thought that hd0
> > was causing the
> > > problem.
> >
> > Not if it is what I think it is.
> >
> > > > I'd change the BIOS settings to try booting the HD first.
> >
> > huh?
> >
> > > Well, since this message is coming from OpenBSD (bootloader?) I
> > don't think
> > > that switching
> > > the boot order would change that, would it? At this point the
> > BIOS already
> > > transferred control
> > > to the bootloader - this is not a bios message.
> >
> > You are correct. By this time, boot has control of the machine, the
> > boot order is irrelevant.
> >
> > > I guess I could disable floppy support in the kernel, but then
> > again this
> > > message comes from
> > > the bootloader, right?? So that would probably not even help.
> >
> > Exactly.
> >
> > > However I think I found out what the source of problem is. The FD
> > > was actually switched off in the bIOS (this thing doesn't have a
> > > floppy) but, even though it's
> > switched off,
> > > the 1.44Mb Floppy
> > > does show up in the bios summary. So I assume it's an error
> > with the BIOS
> > > which obviously doesn't
> > > seem to really switch off the floppy, hence OpenBSD times out.
> >
> > Well...maybe.
> >
> > The boot loader is a little stubborn about floppy drives. Many
> > machines without floppy drives seem to really drive /boot wacko, and
> > it will keep looking, floppy or no floppy. Laptops commonly have
the
> > problem,
> >
> > Markus Watts posted some patches to tech@ for boot back on Nov. 5,
> > 2002. I've found they still installed (for the most part) on boot
> > v2.01, and I can't think of any reason they don't install on 2.02.
> > They shave about 20 seconds off the boot time of my laptops.
> >
> > Dig his message up in the archives, see his point #4.
> >
> > I do have one machine that they don't save, however. Old Whistle
> > Interjet, it refused to get past that point, EVER (waited two
days!),
> > until I installed an old ISA floppy controller (I think it came from
a
>
> > PC or XT!). However, what you are seeing sure sounds like a long
> > version of what my laptop does, Markus's patches will probably help
> > you. On the other hand, once the system is up and running, a one
> > minute delay won't matter much...
> >
> > Nick.
> > --
> > http://www.holland-consulting.net
>
>
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