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On Friday 13 April 2007 14:50, patrick wrote:
> I had the same symptones with a Supermicro 5014C-T (has P8SCi board)
>
> I 'fixed' this by adding autoboot_delay=3D"-1" in /boot/loader.conf.
>
> since then it boots normaly

Unfortunately that makes it impossible to interrupt the loader to go into=20
single user mode (or whatever).

I wonder if it is a race of some sort with the BIOS doing a periodic task a=
nd=20
hence reducing the delay makes it work most of the time.

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
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