<![CDATA[*solved* Slow Speed when booting]]>Hey :-)

I have just bought some FSC Futro S200 on which pfSense 1.2 seems to be running great.
I couldn't resist and to try out the 1.3 Alpha so I tried it.
Problem:
It takes forever to boot… Even the BTX Bootloader takes ~15 Minutes to run through...

No Problems with the 1.2-Version of pfSense though...

I don't know why that is, I just wanted to let you programmers know ;-)

Best regards,

Chris

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/topic/11000/solved-slow-speed-when-bootingRSS for NodeSun, 14 Jun 2026 19:16:47 GMTSun, 21 Sep 2008 17:51:40 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to *solved* Slow Speed when booting on Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:46:54 GMT]]>Hey!

That did the trick :-)

I had to change the "HDD Timing":
Before (which worked fine with 1.2-Version) it was set to "Ultra ATA-33".
Now it only works when set to "Standard" or "Fast PIO".

Is the reason for this a change in the FreeBSD-Version from 1.2 to 1.2.1 or 1.3?

Thanks and best regards,

Chris

P.S.: I still don't understand why the live-cd created a "non bootable" CF-Card. Writing
the image with physdiscwrite worked perfectly though…

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/182609https://forum.netgate.com/post/182609Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:46:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to *solved* Slow Speed when booting on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:19:37 GMT]]>What worked perfectly?!

Can you try if possible to update bios, disable acpi/apm in bios, disable any PlugN'Play settings in the bios and even set the hardrive/CF parameters to PIO4 not LBA….

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/182431https://forum.netgate.com/post/182431Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:19:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to *solved* Slow Speed when booting on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:27:25 GMT]]>Hey!

That worked perfectly!
No idea why the liveCD didn't create it correctly…

BUT:
The 1.2.1 image also boots as slowly as the 1.3 image...
It takes > 40 Minutes for the
"Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf"-Screen to go away :-(

How could we get this working?

Help  :'( :'(

Thanks and best regards,

Chris

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/182416https://forum.netgate.com/post/182416Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:27:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to *solved* Slow Speed when booting on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:52:57 GMT]]>Can you try wih an embedded image from snapshots, the ones that end with .img and tell the results?

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/182379https://forum.netgate.com/post/182379Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:52:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to *solved* Slow Speed when booting on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:40:58 GMT]]>Well yes, but how can that happen?

I have used the live cd and installed it onto the CF-Card, the installation program has not produced any
error messages…

Can I manually fix that bootloader from within the BSD-Shell?

Thanks!

Best regards,

Christian

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/182372https://forum.netgate.com/post/182372Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:40:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to *solved* Slow Speed when booting on Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:39:17 GMT]]>You have a broken bootloader, simple as that.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/182355https://forum.netgate.com/post/182355Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:39:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to *solved* Slow Speed when booting on Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:46:03 GMT]]>Well it might take some time as I now have problems with the bootloader:
It won't boot from the CF-Card, only displays repeatedly:

–-
F1  FreeBSD
F5  Drive 0

This is repeated endlessly...

Any thoughts how to solve this?

Best regards,

Chris

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/182347https://forum.netgate.com/post/182347Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:46:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to *solved* Slow Speed when booting on Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:47:18 GMT]]>I have not yet tried 1.2.1… Just 1.2 which runs perfectly fine...
I'll test 1.2.1 today and report back :-)

Best regards,

Chris

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/182334https://forum.netgate.com/post/182334Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:47:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to *solved* Slow Speed when booting on Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:07:46 GMT]]>Does 1.2.1 show the same symptoms?

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/182327https://forum.netgate.com/post/182327Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:07:46 GMT