Re: [5.0_RC2] long delay in /boot

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

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.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb