I have a machine, that works great, BUT, it takes about 10 minutes to boot?
Weird part - If I put a hard drive in there that has windows on it, fast boot!
Gigabyte X58a-ud3r board, VT-d enabled, all works great with install and running. The boot is the weird part.
It is installed on a sata 1TB drive.
Bios boots, gets past DMI scan, to where it should hit the OS and see ESXi yellow screen run by. It sits there on a black screen ( I can see the HD activity light solid on during this time BTW ) then after 10 min, starts its boot up.
Not sure if this could be related, but when ESXi does start to boot, it hangs for a good couple or three minutes on loading achi section.
Only with ESXi disk though, so its not the bios or anything.
What could be causing this weird behavior?
Thanks all for the help in this forum. Just working out the last bugs now.
