Re: A1000 & Solaris 9, long boot time slow

From: Darren Dunham (ddunham_at_redwood.taos.com)
Date: 12/30/03 

Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 18:34:25 GMT

Matt Weatherford <mbw@u.washington.edu> wrote:

> System is:
> Sun Fire V240 SunOS Release 5.9
> Version Generic_112233-08 64-bit sparc

> What is wrong is that a reboot on this machine takes 5 minutes or more...

You have raid manager installed.

> it hangs right here in the boot process:

> Rebooting with command: boot
> Boot device: disk:a File and args:
> SunOS Release 5.9 Version Generic_112233-08 64-bit
> Copyright 1983-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
> Use is subject to license terms.
> \

> .....and here it sits for 6-7 minutes before continuing.

Yup. Quite annoying. the more luns you have defined in st.conf for the
st driver to probe, and the more controllers you have to probe it on,
the longer it will hang at boot.

> Would like to get the cycle time on this machine improved.
> Does anyone know what can we do to fix this?

Reduce the luns probed via sd.conf, or toss the A1000 and uninstall
raidmanager. 

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