Re: Very slow boot process with Tyan MB and OBSD 2.7.

["STeve Andre'" <andres_(_at_)_msu_(_dot_)_edu>]

Are you sure that you have everything terminated correctly?
You might want to see if things boot faster if you have just
one disk attached.

I mention termination, because I once messed that up on an
old DOS system that worked, but took forever to boot; I think
it saw reflections from devices and went through a period where
it was rather confused before continuing the boot.

A thought.

--STeve Andre'

At 10:50 PM 11/6/00 -0600, C. Bensend wrote:

> 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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