Have *you* disabled Firewire?

[Sean Bruno]

> I get the xpt_config waits, but I have not disabled firewire: I
> just work around the problem by manually disconnecting the
> external drive in question and re-attaching it after the boot
> has failed and falled into single-user mode.  It seems to work
> fine for post-boot arrival.
> 
> Want my bootverbose logs?  (I think that I posted them before,
> the first time around, but can probably make a new set.)
> 
> Also: this does seem to be a race condition kind of thing,
> because in the intervening time I *have* had at least one
> successful, hands-off boot.
> 
> Cheers,
> 

If you can send me your bootverbose dmesg output, that would be great.

Sean