Very slow boot process with Tyan MB and OBSD 2.7.

["C. Bensend" <benny_(_at_)_bennyvision_(_dot_)_com>]

Hey folks,

	I have a Pentium 90 machine, w/32M of RAM,
Tyan (circa 1996) motherboard, Tekram DC-390-F SCSI
controller, and two Netgear 310's running OpenBSD 2.7
Release.  It has all current patches, as of approx.
October 27th or so.

	While the machine runs perfectly, its boot time
is incredible - it takes approximately 10 minutes to
boot.  The boot process hangs while detecting the 
hard drive (prior to the OpenBSD BOOT prompt).  It
cycles through hda0 and hda1, and that's where it delays.
This system is entirely SCSI, there is no IDE.  It
seems to go a little overboard trying to find IDE 
boot devices.

	I've searched Google, OpenBSD's site, and
various other engines - do any of you have any insight
into this issue?  It doesn't prevent anything from 
working properly, but this system is on one of my
borders, and it makes me nervous that it takes that
long to reboot.  The networks it protects aren't 
mission-critical or anything, I'm persuing this mostly
out of curiousity (or just plain annoyance).

	I should have been more specific above - it
takes approximately 10 minutes to get to the OpenBSD
BOOT prompt - from there, it boots normally.

I would appreciate any advice/hints/RTFM's you might
give me.  Thank you.

Benny


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