*solved* Slow Speed when booting
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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
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Does 1.2.1 show the same symptoms?
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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
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You have a broken bootloader, simple as that.
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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
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Can you try wih an embedded image from snapshots, the ones that end with .img and tell the results?
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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
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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….
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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…