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Re: [5.0_RC2] long delay in /boot



On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:38:13PM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:19:53 -0500 (EST)
> "Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > >>> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 03:55:50PM -0500, Andreas Wrede wrote:
> > >>>> usr/pkg/mdec/memtestplus is also delayed by the same 4 min 52
> > >>>> sec.
> > > The problem shown is after boot printed the size of the kernel
> > > segments and before the kernel prints the copyright.
> > 
> > It seems memtestplus shows the same behaviour.
> > 
> Which points strongly to the boot loader, since memtestplus doesn't use
> any part of our kernel.

But it might initialise the pckbc the same way NetBSD does in early
console setup.

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