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Date:      Fri, 02 Jun 2006 10:38:21 +0100
From:      Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk>
To:        Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: long timeout on boot
Message-ID:  <1149241101.60897.58.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <2a41acea0606011530wf7bca5du23711fbfbfbc81@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <2a41acea0606011530wf7bca5du23711fbfbfbc81@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 15:30 -0700, Jack Vogel wrote:
> Both on my own machine, and on systems in our test group's lab, we
> notice these long (like 2min maybe?) delays near the end of boot. It
> seems to be ATA/SATA related. It has just announced the one disk
> it discovered, then shows the CPUs launched, and then it just sits
> printing nothing for, like I said, maybe a minute or two. Finally it will
> complete boot and all seems to be fine.

Can you put a verbose dmesg up with debug.fdc.debugflags=255 set from
the loader?

I suspect you'll find it's floppy-related.  Try setting 
hint.fdc.0.disabled="1" from the loader and seeing if it goes away.

Gavin



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