Minute+ delay between kernel load and initialization (solved!)

[Charles Owens]

On 4/19/2010 6:37 PM, Alexander Sack wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Charles Owens
> <cowens at greatbaysoftware.com> wrote:
>   
>> On 1/18/2010 10:05 AM, Charles Owens wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> We have a new system based on the Intel S5520 motherboard that seems to
>>> work fine except during _every_ boot it pauses for about one minute 15
>>> seconds just before any kernel initialization messages appear.   We see
>>> the loader appearing to complete its work (the kernel is loaded) and
>>> then... it sits.  Once it starts up again (with usual kernel-boot
>>> messages) it appears to boot normally (no error messages).
>>>
>>> This has been seen with both FreeBSD 8.0 and 7.1, using GENERIC kernels.
>>>  I'd appreciate any and all assistance in figuring this out.
>>>
>>> Boot output follows (happens to be from a PAE-enabled kernel)
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Charles
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> [truncated]
>>
>> An answer to this was graciously provided by Titus Manea.   For details,
>> see
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=i386/144956
>>     
> Charles, thanks for this.  I am also seeing this on a S5520UR.  What
> was ultimately the patch fix?  Just the disable hint?  The jhb link is
> for mpt.
>
> Thanks!
>   

Whoops!... Yes... ignore that comment with the jhb link... the preceding
one regarding device.hints has the solution.

-- Charles