Re: [5.0_RC2] long delay in /boot

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

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?

The problem shown is after boot printed the size of the kernel segments
and before the kernel prints the copyright.

Joerg