freebsd 8.0 slow boot

[Amitabh Kant]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Omer Faruk Sen <omerfsen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> After boot loader multi choice menu FreeBSD 8.0 waits about 2 ~
> minutes to boot just showing
>
> |
>
> sign. As far as I know FreeBSD 8.0 uses a new TTY subsystem
>
> OLD one:
>
>  w
>  6:28PM  up 5 days,  4:09, 2 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> USER             TTY      FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
> root             p0
>
>
> NEW one (with 8.0)
>
> w
> 12:26AM  up 11 mins, 2 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.02, 0.02
> USER             TTY      FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
> root             pts/1
>
>
> I think this is related with that. Is there any option to use old TTY
> subsystem on 8.0 or how can I speed up that boot wait process.
>
> Regards.
>

I am having the same problem with a dual processor Intel board. Would be
interested if any setting can speed up the boot process.

Amitabh Kant