NanoBSD boot time

[Sylgeist]

I have an old HP thin client box I'm making into a small embedded type machine. This is just a curiosity more than an issue.

When I boot from the i386 8.0-Release USB memstick the machine boots like any other. After I get a Nanobsd image installed on the internal flash there is a 1 minute or so delay from the BIOS messages to seeing the BTX loader messages.

Any ideas why?

I have tried two different flash chips, but I'm guessing it's a configuration setting?

[Sylgeist]

Solved - if anyone else is curious Nanobsd defaults to booting with a serial console. I added

NANO_BOOTLOADER="boot/boot0"
to my config file and rebuilt. All is well now!

[aragon]

That's right. There is a problem with boot0sio (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=136888).

[Zogg]

Thank you!

P.S. If I had seen this earlier, it would have saved days of debugging.