long timeout on boot

[Gavin Atkinson]

On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 15:30 -0700, Jack Vogel wrote:
> Both on my own machine, and on systems in our test group's lab, we
> notice these long (like 2min maybe?) delays near the end of boot. It
> seems to be ATA/SATA related. It has just announced the one disk
> it discovered, then shows the CPUs launched, and then it just sits
> printing nothing for, like I said, maybe a minute or two. Finally it will
> complete boot and all seems to be fine.

Can you put a verbose dmesg up with debug.fdc.debugflags=255 set from
the loader?

I suspect you'll find it's floppy-related.  Try setting 
hint.fdc.0.disabled="1" from the loader and seeing if it goes away.

Gavin