Subject: Re: More progress
To: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
From: Ian Fry <Ian.Fry@sophos.com>
List: port-arm26
Date: 11/28/2001 10:53:25
On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 01:12:25PM +0000, Ian Fry wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 12:53:23PM +0000, Ben Harris wrote:
> > > I still need to boot single user and enable swap in order to get the
> > > machine to boot in a sensible amount of time, though.
> > If you don't have it already, you should add "rc_fast_and_loose=YES" to
> > /etc/rc.conf.  This stops /etc/rc spawning quite so many shells.
> Ah, yes! I'd forgotten about that. I'll try it over the weekend.

This helps a bit, but not enough. I've tried it both booting diskless and
from hard disk, and the boot 'hangs' after a bit with sh in uvn_fp1 usually.

It *does* make the boot quite a bit quicker, though.

Ian.