One of the great mysteries (to me) of the FreeBSD boot process are the strange text=1234 data=5678 syms=9876 msgs which come up immediately after the the Loading kernel ... msg. I never really take any notice of this as it wizzes past in a few seconds, but what I'm seeing at the moment whilst trying to PXE boot FreeBSD is that the spinner after text=0x1678a68 takes about 1.5 mins to complete its task. Once past that point it boots up fairly quickly.
Any idea why it takes so long?
Any idea why it takes so long?