Re: Problem booting from 2.4 CD (i386) (with dmesg)

[Michael Shalayeff <mickey@lucifier.dial-up.user.akula.net>]

re
well, enough of this "slower" and "faster".
i still have no clue what exactly takes that "long time" so far.
provide, please a timing sheet for each line of output
sharp to seconds (microseconds will be even better if you can).
cu

Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Jens [_rtenholm]:
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> Greetings!
> 
> > i would (and everybody else would) appreciate if you supply your
> > `dmesg` output.
> >
> > what do you mean 'everything'?
> > do you mean that after you push the key it takes a long time for
> > it to be echoed?
> 
> No, it takes ages to boot the system, but once it's up and running, I log on and
> everything is
> working at proper speed.
> 
> Anyway, I booted the system (from another HD, reinstalled yesterday) and watched
> more
> closely. What happens is that loading the kernel takes ages (the /bsd 38473874+|/-\|
> thing)
> but once it's done everything starts working as it should. And, it doesn't take 20
> minutes
> to boot as I stated before, it takes 1 hour (13.00 -> 14.05 to get to the login:
> prompt).
> 
> dmesg output provided:
> 
> OpenBSD 2.4 (GENERIC) #56: Thu Oct 22 01:26:52 MDT 1998
>     deraadt@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
> cpu0: Intel Pentium II ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 399 MHz
> cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SYS,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,MMX,EMMX
> BIOS mem  = 653312 conventional, 401595392 extended
> real mem  = 402251776
> avail mem = 372228096
> using 2822 buffers containing 20213760 bytes of memory
> mainbus0 (root)
> bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(d9) BIOS, date 09/17/98
> bios0: apminfo 0xf046a00c diskinfo 0xf046a034 cksumlen 1 memmap 0xf046a0b0
> apm at bios0 function 0x15 not configured
> pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)
> pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82443BX PCI AGP Controller (PAC)" rev 0x03
> ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Intel 82443BX AGP Device (PAC)" rev 0x03
> pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
> vendor "Matrox", unknown product 0x521 (class display, subclass VGA, rev 0x01) at
> pci1 dev 0 function 0 not configured
> pcib0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 "Intel 82371AB PIIX4 ISA Bridge" rev 0x02
> "Intel 82371AB IDE controller (PIIX4)" rev 0x01 at pci0 dev 7 function 1 not
> configured
> "Intel 82371AB USB Host Controller (PIIX4)" rev 0x01 at pci0 dev 7 function 2 not
> configured
> "Intel 82371AB Power Management Controller (PIIX4)" rev 0x02 at pci0 dev 7 function
> 3 not configured
> ahc1 at pci0 dev 14 function 0 "Adaptec AHA-2940 Ultra" rev 0x01: irq 10
> ahc1: aic7880 Wide Channel, SCSI Id=7, 16 SCBs
> scsibus0 at ahc1: 16 targets
> ahc1: target 1 synchronous at 20.0MHz, offset = 0xf
> cd0 at scsibus0 targ 1 lun 0: <NEC, CD-ROM DRIVE:465, 1.03> SCSI2 5/cdrom removable
> ahc1: target 4 synchronous at 10.0MHz, offset = 0x8
> cd1 at scsibus0 targ 4 lun 0: <PLEXTOR, CD-R   PX-R412C, 1.04> SCSI2 5/cdrom
> removable
> sd0 at scsibus0 targ 6 lun 0: <IOMEGA, ZIP 100, J.03> SCSI2 0/direct removable
> sd0: drive offline
> vendor "Creative Labs", unknown product 0x2 (class multimedia, subclass audio, rev
> 0x04) at pci0 dev 16 function 0 not configured
> vendor "Creative Labs", unknown product 0x7002 (class input, subclass miscellaneous,
> rev 0x01) at pci0 dev 16 function 1 not configured
> isa0 at mainbus0
> ep0 at isa0 port 0x300-0x30f irq 5: address 00:a0:24:16:f9:1b, utp (default utp)
> isadma0 at isa0
> wdc0 at isa0 port 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14
> atapibus0 at wdc0
> wd0 at wdc0 drive 0: <ST32140A>
> wd0: 2015MB, 4095 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 4127760 sec total
> wd0: using 16-sector 16-bit pio transfers, lba addressing (128KB cache)
> npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff: using exception 16
> pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
> pccom1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
> vt0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x6f irq 1: generic VGA, 80 col, color, 8 scr, mf2-kbd
> pms0 at vt0 irq 12
> fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2
> fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
> biomask 4440 netmask 4460 ttymask 5462
> root on wd0a
> pctr: 686-class user-level performance counters enabled
> dkcsum: open of sd0 failed (5)
> dkcsum: wd0 matched BIOS disk 80
> rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302
> 
> Btw, I would like to add that besides this and a few other small problems with
> OpenBSD, this OS has
> probably been the best thing that ever happened to my system (and a few others I run
> at work). :-)
> Keep up the good work!
> 
> Regards,
> Jens _rtenholm
> PC-Programs
> jens.ortenholm@pc-programs.se
> 


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