amd64/150909: Freebsd freezes a few minutes booting on intel board

[Anton]

>Number:         150909
>Category:       amd64
>Synopsis:       Freebsd freezes a few minutes booting on intel board
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-amd64
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Sep 24 11:20:01 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Anton
>Release:        8.1-RELEASE
>Organization:
Statutov
>Environment:
FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19 02:36:49 UTC 2010 root at mason.cse.buffalo.edu GENERIC amd64
>Description:
After boot loader multi choice menu FreeBSD 8.0 waits about 2 minutes to boot just showing "|" sign.

Here are the same problem reports:
http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2010-01/msg00983.html

Also, switching between virtual consoles takes about 1-2 seconds, so I think this problem can be related with the new TTY subsystem.
>How-To-Repeat:
Buy Intel s5500wb board, then boot FreeBSD 8.1
>Fix:


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