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Date:      Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:53:00 +0100
From:      "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@FreeBSD.org>
To:        FreeBSD stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Long delays for USB realbtx boot
Message-ID:  <48C922BC.4030504@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <48C91525.10806@incunabulum.net>
References:  <48C91525.10806@incunabulum.net>

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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.

P.S. It appears none of QEMU, VMware 3.0, or VirtualBox 1.6.6 are able 
to emulate booting from a USB key in their BIOS, and only QEMU seems to 
support attaching a disk image on USB, making testing this a bit of a 
pain (real hardware is always needed).

cheers
BMS



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