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Cc: Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>,
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Times
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On Wednesday 13 June 2012 15:21:29 Ian Lepore wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 09:10 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > > Greetings,
> > > 
> > > I was just wondering what it is that FreeBSD does that makes it take so
> > > long to boot. Booting into Ubuntu minimal or my own custom Linux
> > > distro, literally takes 0.5-2 seconds to boot up to shell, where
> > > FreeBSD takes about 10-20 seconds. I'm not sure if anything could be
> > > parallelized in the boot process,
> > 
> > mostly kernel time.
> > 
> > > Note: This isn't really an issue, moreso a curiosity.
> > 
> > true. system that never crash are not often booted
> 
> An embedded system may be booted or powered cycled dozens of times a
> day, and boot time can be VERY important.  Don't assume that the way you
> use FreeBSD is the only way.
> 
> -- Ian

Try setting:

sysctl hw.usb.no_boot_wait=1

Might help a bit :-)

--HPS