Re: [5.0_RC2] long delay in /boot

["Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>]

On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, Andrew Doran wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:38:29AM -0500, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
>
> > Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > > On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 03:55:50PM -0500, Andreas Wrede wrote:
> > > > On a NetBSD/amd64 5.0_RC2 system, the boot process hangs for 4 min 52
> > > > sec (+- 1 sec) after printing the loaded segment sizes and before
> > > > printing the Copyright line. This is happening in /boot as booting /
> > > > usr/pkg/mdec/memtestplus is also delayed by the same 4 min 52 sec.
> > >
> > > Try to build a kernel without pckbd. We had some issues on cetrain HP
> > > systems with the built-in keyboard emulation being extremely slow,
> > > resulting in similar symptoms.
> >
> > How is that going to help /boot?
>
> Presumably this is the same problem that affects some Soekris boxes? Or are
> they from another vendor?

Must be a different vendor, Soekris doesn't have any amd64 products. ISTR 
that the Soekris problem was that it took ~5 minutes for boot2 to show up, 
instead of ~5 minutes for the kernel to start.

Cheers,
Jared