6.1 hangs after launching CPU on DL380

[Christoph Schug]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2006, brad miele wrote:

> I just finished an install of 6.1 on a dl380 with dual xeon 3.2 procs. 
> things seem fine, but when it is booting, it hangs for about 4 minutes 
> after the "Launching CPU x" phase. Boot continues normally after that, but 
> the delay is disconcerting for some reason.

I had similar hangs on DL380 G1, G2 and G3. In my case disabling ACPI
and setting OS to 'Linux' in RBSU solved the situation.

/boot/loader.conf:
| hint.acpi.0.disabled="1"

-cs