FreeBSD Boot Times

[Brandon Falk]

Greetings,

I was just wondering what it is that FreeBSD does that makes it take so 
long to boot. Booting into Ubuntu minimal or my own custom Linux distro, 
literally takes 0.5-2 seconds to boot up to shell, where FreeBSD takes 
about 10-20 seconds. I'm not sure if anything could be parallelized in 
the boot process, but Linux somehow manages to do it. The Ubuntu install 
I do pretty much consists of a shell and developers tools, but it still 
has a generic kernel. There must be some sort of polling done in the 
FreeBSD boot process that could be parallelized or eliminated.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Note: This isn't really an issue, moreso a curiosity.

-Brandon