A big-ish machine, cannot boot

[Sean Bruno]

On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 09:08 -0800, Ivan Voras wrote:
> On 19 November 2010 18:04, Garrett Cooper <gcooper at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > A similar issue occurred with an HP box recently (in the last 3-4
> > months?). I'd check the archives for more details.
> 
> Yes, I remembered the post by Sean Bruno but then I also remembered
> people replying they have successfully booted larger machines than his
> or mine.
> 
> What is the last thing the loader does before booting the kernel?
> Enumberating memory regions?
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What I've seen is that the long pause occurs between the display of the
SMAP (boot verbose) and the copywrite notice.  The delay gets worse with
larger memory maps.

Sean