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Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:30:04 +0100
From: "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@FreeBSD.org>
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Cc: Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Long delays for USB realbtx boot
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Bruce M. Simpson wrote:
> Bruce M Simpson wrote:
>> ...
>> During testing I noticed that whilst the images eventually boot, 
>> there is an extremely long delay before doing so, between when the 
>> BIOS reads the boot sector and when the BTX loader messages appear.

I can reproduce the boot delay condition on a crusty old A/Open MX3S 
based, socket 370 Celeron that I keep around for testing stuff like this.

[...in another thread, it's documented to have working SMBus-based mbmon 
support... but I don't have any boot media for it. grrr.]