6.1-prerelease: boot loader pause timer hangs

[Rob]

Hi,

I am keeping in sync with 6-Stable every now and
then. At present I have a problem with the pause
timer of the boot loader. In /boot/loader.conf I
have:

 autoboot_delay="3"

and as soon as the pause timer is supposed to count
down, it kind of hangs; actually, the cursor seems
to jump as if the number "3" is continuously printed
instead of a countdown. This 'hang' continues until
I hit the return key, after which the boot process
continues as usual.

When I remove the delay line in loader.conf, then
the loader displays a pause timer of "10", but
actually *immediately* continues as if the pause
timer is zero (so no delay at all).

I believe there's something wrong with the boot
loader in 6.1-Prerelease. Or has my PC become buggy?

Any idea what's the problem?
Anybody else sees this?

Regards,
Rob.

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/boot/loader.conf has following lines:

 autoboot_delay="3" # 3 seconds pause timer
 if_rl_load="YES"   # PCI Ethernet
 random_load="YES"  # Pseudo device for SSH
 sio_load="YES"     # Serial (COM) ports

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/boot.config has this:

 -D

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kernel config file has following:

machine         i386
cpu             I686_CPU
ident           MYKERNEL
options SCHED_4BSD              
options INET                    
options INET6                   
options FFS                     
options SOFTUPDATES             
options UFS_ACL                 
options UFS_DIRHASH             
options COMPAT_43               
options COMPAT_FREEBSD4         
options COMPAT_FREEBSD5         
options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING 
options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV        
device  pci
device  ata
device  atadisk         
options ATA_STATIC_ID   
device  scbus           
device  da              
device  pass            
device  atkbdc          
device  atkbd           
device  psm             
device  vga             
device  splash          
device  sc
device  pmtimer
device  loop            
device  ether           
device  pty             
device  md              
device  bpf             
options SC_DISABLE_REBOOT
options TCP_DROP_SYNFIN
options DEVICE_POLLING
options HZ=1000
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