Re: Long boot times...

[jedi <jedi@ccrypt.net>]

I've actually installed 2.9 current on an old ibm thinkpad with a 486, 8
megs of ram and 350meg hd.  ran into the same problem with booting being
slow, but I haven't seen your issue with it hanging like that.  I was
actually able to get out of ssh-keygen and move forward faster to make
sure it booted correctly.

anyway you can get a dmesg out?

note: recompiling a kernel on this puppy can take over 24 hours.... :)

On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Jeff Ross wrote:

> Now, my next question :-)
>
> I'm completely new to OpenBSD.  How long does it take to boot the system
> on an 8 meg machine?
>
> My first boot after this fresh installation was slow, but ssh-keygen was
> making keys and so on.  The boot took about 30 minutes to get past
> "preserving editor files", and then finally stalled (I guess) after
> showing me the date.
>
> After a couple of hours of watching the disk light solidly on and
> listening to the disk thrash, I tried various key combinations to break
> out of the startup attempt.  Nothing worked, so I cycled the power to try
> again.
>
> The next two attempts didn't have to wait for keygen, but the delays still
> started with "preserving editor files", stalling, again, after the date
> line appears.
>
> I tried booting with verbose enabled, but apparently after the hardware is
> scanned the verbose method doesn't apply, so, other than seeing that my
> hardware is all being found, I didn't gain anything.
>
> Is this a lack of ram problem?  Should I try booting from the installation
> floppy, mounting the wd0 and wd1 to /mnt and /mnt2, and playing with some
> of the startup options?  I can cut back on the number of virtual
> consoles--what else can I try?
>
> Maybe I'm just not patient enough ;-)
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jeff Ross