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Asus Z9PA-U8 motherboard, 256GB of RAM, 2.4 GHz Xeon E5-2695 v2, FreeBSD
11.0-CURRENT r258092

There is a two minute pause when booting, after the loader's SMAP
display and the initial kernel output,

Does anyone know what's going on here?  Even that much RAM shouldn't
take that much time to clear.