Slow bootstrapping

[Roland Hammerle]

Hello,

I recently installed FreeBSD 5.2 on the first primary partition of my second 
hard drive. The other partitions a few logical partitions containing Linux 
and a fat primary partition.

After installation everything went fine. Booting was fast as usual.

Then I changed the layout of the disk. I deleted one logical partition and 
made a primary partition out of it (using Linux's cfdisk). After doing that 
the boostrapping into FreeBSD seems awfully slow. It takes a minute to get to 
the beastie prompt. Once the highlighted kernel messages appear booting is 
fast as always.

Can someone explain what's going on and how I could fix it?

Thanks,

Roland