Booting stuck for about 10minutes

[Mark Johnston]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 10:37 AM, Michael Fuckner <michael at fuckner.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a Quanta Q71L-4U Quad Xeon E7-8850 Machine which should run
> FreeBSD10.1. Currently it is equipped with 512GB, but in the end it should
> use 3TB.
>
> I boot the bootloader and the kernel and then for about 10minutes exactly
> nothing happens. Not on the physical monitor, not on the serial console.
> After this 10Minutes it boots up as expected.
>
> Any idea how to speed this up? Could this increase when adding more memory?

I think that a boot-time memtest is enabled by default on 10.1. Could
you try adding hw.memtest.tests=0 to /boot/loader.conf and see if the
delay goes away?