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

[Alexander Sack]

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!

-aps