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>>> On Fri, 7 Jun 2013 19:38:34 +0200, Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
>>>> Since I updated to 9.1-RELEASE my boot process seems to stall for a
>>>> while. Booting in verbose mode shows messages like these ones:
>>>>
>>>> Opening device da0 ->  6 (repeated like 30 times or so)
>>>> Opening device da1 ->  6 (repeated like 30 times or so)
>>>> Opening device da2 ->  6 (repeated like 30 times or so)
>>>> Opening device da3 ->  6 (repeated like 30 times or so)
>>>>
>>>> Those devices correspond to my internal SD card reader that doesn't
>>>> work on FreeBSD anyway. This seems some kind of probing right? I don't
>>>> want to wait for those devices. What can I do to speed up booting? I
>>>> didn't change my system settings either. Did anything related change
>>>> in the kernel about probing these type of devices?

Since you are not using the device could you not just disable it in the 
BIOS?

Chris