problem booting a new server on FreeBSD

[Amitabh Kant]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 2:03 AM, FRLinux <frlinux at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Robert Bonomi <bonomi at mail.r-bonomi.com>
> wrote:
> > Try booting _with_ a disk in the CD drive.
>
> Well, I was at least for the first install since I booted from CD,
> time was the same about 1m to 1m30 before it boots.
>
> > Also, assuming these are parallel ATA drives, check the master/slave
> jumper
> > settings -- both on the CDROM and any other device on the same
> controller.
>
> Not a bad idea, have actually to open of the servers tomorrow so will
> check on that.
>
> Cheers,
> Steph
>

Try setting hint.atkbdc.0.disabled=”1" and hint.atkbd.0.disabled=”1″ in
/boot/device.hints . This should solve your boot delay problems. If I am not
wrong, it relates to usb keyboard.

With regards

Amitabh