On 2013-11-16 00:48, Matthias Petermann wrote: > Hello James, > > Am 16.11.2013 05:37, schrieb James R. Van Artsdalen: > > Asus Z9PA-U8 motherboard, 256GB of RAM, 2.4 GHz Xeon E5-2695 v2, > > FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT r258092 > > > There is a two minute pause when booting, after the loader's SMAP > > display and the initial kernel output, > > > Does anyone know what's going on here? Even that much RAM > > shouldn't take that much time to clear. > > in an earlier discussion at FreeBSD Forums[1] it looks like this is > related to some early stage memory test which is performed. > > It can be disabled by adding > > hw.memtest.tests="0" > > to /boot/loader.conf. For my 32GB machine this helped. > > > Best regards, > Matthias > > > [1] http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=12705 > I see this was in the release notes for 9.0 and 8.3, but other than that, I don't see how anyone was supposed to find out about this Maybe it would make sense to print 'Starting memory test, set hw.memtest.test=0 to disable' before that starts, so anyone stuck waiting will have a hint about what to do. -- Allan Jude
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