i386/144956: [boot] Early minute-plus delay in boot on Intel Nehalem system

[Charles Owens]

The following reply was made to PR i386/144956; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Charles Owens <cowens at greatbaysoftware.com>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, cowens at greatbaysoftware.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: i386/144956: [boot] Early minute-plus delay in boot on Intel
 Nehalem system
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 07:16:18 -0400

 It's worth nothing also that we've this exact symptom occasionally when
 booting systems running within VMware ESX.  There's no pattern that
 we've been able to detect as to when it will strike.
 
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  Charles Owens
  Great Bay Software, Inc.