I have this i386 system that doesn't even get close to booting under 3.x but
I was surprise to see boot with 4.0b2.  There's an odd behavior thought that
I'd like to understand better.

From the time the boot blocks finish loading the kernel until anything gets
printed on the console nothing seems to be happening.  For around 2 minutes
the system appears to be dead aside from the drive activity light blinking
sparsely, sporadically.

I've seen acpi info get written back to the console on other P4 systems
during this period but they also go on to continue booting normally.  Once
the kernel starts to print, it continues normally and the system otherwise
behaves fine.

Is this a known behavior?  (The kernel is GENERIC.MP plus some other
features like ipsec.)

peter


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NetBSD 4.0_BETA2 (PETER-FW) #5: Wed Aug 22 11:34:22 CDT 2007
        
peter@buster:/builds/netbsd-4/i386/obj/builds/netbsd-4/src/sys/arch/i386/com
pile/PETER-FW
total memory = 2047 MB
rbus: rbus_min_start set to 0x80000000
avail memory = 2000 MB
timecounter: Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
timecounter: Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 100
BIOS32 rev. 0 found at 0xfd741
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor)
cpu0: Intel (686-class), 3600.26 MHz, id 0xf41
cpu0: features bfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR>
cpu0: features bfebfbff<PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX>
cpu0: features bfebfbff<FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF>
cpu0: features2 659d<SSE3,MONITOR,DS-CPL,EST,TM2,CID,xTPR>
cpu0: features3 20000000<EM64T>
cpu0: "Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.60GHz"
cpu0: I-cache 12K uOp cache 8-way
cpu0: L2 cache 1 MB 64B/line 8-way
cpu0: ITLB 4K/4M: 64 entries
cpu0: DTLB 4K/4M: 64 entries
cpu0: enabling thermal monitor 1 ... enabled.
cpu0: Enhanced SpeedStep disabled by BIOS
cpu0: calibrating local timer
cpu0: apic clock running at 202 MHz
cpu0: 32 page colors
cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 1 (application processor)
cpu1: starting
cpu1: Intel (686-class), 3636.14 MHz, id 0xf41
cpu1: features bfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR>
cpu1: features bfebfbff<PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX>
cpu1: features bfebfbff<FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF>
cpu1: features2 659d<SSE3,MONITOR,DS-CPL,EST,TM2,CID,xTPR>
cpu1: features3 20000000<EM64T>
cpu1: "Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.60GHz"
cpu1: I-cache 12K uOp cache 8-way
cpu1: L2 cache 1 MB 64B/line 8-way
cpu1: ITLB 4K/4M: 64 entries
cpu1: DTLB 4K/4M: 64 entries
cpu1: using thermal monitor 1
cpu1: Enhanced SpeedStep disabled by BIOS
ioapic0 at mainbus0 apid 14 (I/O APIC)
ioapic0: pa 0xfec00000, version 20, 24 pins
ioapic1 at mainbus0 apid 13 (I/O APIC)
ioapic1: pa 0xfec10000, version 20, 24 pins
ioapic2 at mainbus0 apid 12 (I/O APIC)
ioapic2: pa 0xfec81000, version 20, 24 pins
ioapic3 at mainbus0 apid 11 (I/O APIC)
ioapic3: pa 0xfec81400, version 20, 24 pins
acpi0 at mainbus0: Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
acpi0: using Intel ACPI CA subsystem version 20060217
acpi0: X/RSDT: OemId <IBM   ,SERBLADE,00001000>, AslId <IBM ,45444f43>
acpi0: SCI interrupting at int 11
acpi0: fixed-feature power button present
timecounter: Timecounter "ACPI-Fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
ACPI-Fast 24-bit timer
ACPI Object Type 'Processor' (0x0c) at acpi0 not configured
ACPI Object Type 'Processor' (0x0c) at acpi0 not configured
PNP0A08 [PCI Express/PCI-X Mode-2 Host Bridge] at acpi0 not configured
com3 at acpi0 (PNP0501-1)
com3: io 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4
com3: ns16550a, working fifo
PNP0000 [AT Interrupt Controller] at acpi0 not configured
PNP0003 [APIC] at acpi0 not configured
PNP0003 [APIC] at acpi0 not configured
PNP0003 [APIC] at acpi0 not configured
PNP0200 [AT DMA Controller] at acpi0 not configured
attimer1 at acpi0 (PNP0100): AT Timer
attimer1: io 0x40-0x43 irq 0
PNP0B00 [AT Real-Time Clock] at acpi0 not configured
pcppi1 at acpi0 (PNP0800)
pcppi1: io 0x61
pcppi1: children must have an explicit unit
midi0 at pcppi1: PC speaker (CPU-intensive output)
sysbeep0 at pcppi1
npx1 at acpi0 (PNP0C04)
npx1: io 0xf0-0xff irq 13
npx1: reported by CPUID; using exception 16
PNP0C02 [Plug and Play motherboard register resources] at acpi0 not
configured
pcppi1: attached to attimer1
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, rd/mult, wr/inv ok
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0
pchb0: Intel E7525 Memory Controller Hub (rev. 0x0c)
Intel E7525 Error Reporting Device (undefined subclass 0x00, revision 0x0c)
at pci0 dev 0 function 1 not configured
ppb0 at pci0 dev 3 function 0: Intel E7525 PCI Express Port A1 (rev. 0x0c)
pci1 at ppb0 bus 4
pci1: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, wr/inv ok
ppb1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0: Intel 6700PXH PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge #0
(rev. 0x09)
pci2 at ppb1 bus 6
pci2: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, wr/inv ok
ppb2 at pci1 dev 0 function 2: Intel 6700PXH PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge #1
(rev. 0x09)
pci3 at ppb2 bus 5
pci3: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, wr/inv ok
bge0 at pci3 dev 1 function 0: Broadcom BCM5704S Dual Gigabit Ethernet
bge0: interrupting at ioapic3 pin 5 (irq 7)
bge0: ASIC unknown BCM5704 (0x2100), Ethernet address 00:14:5e:36:17:2e
bge1 at pci3 dev 1 function 1: Broadcom BCM5704S Dual Gigabit Ethernet
bge1: interrupting at ioapic3 pin 6 (irq 5)
bge1: ASIC unknown BCM5704 (0x2100), Ethernet address 00:14:5e:36:17:2f
Intel product 0x359b (miscellaneous system, revision 0x0c) at pci0 dev 8
function 0 not configured
ppb3 at pci0 dev 28 function 0: Intel 6300ESB PCI-X Bridge (rev. 0x02)
pci4 at ppb3 bus 2
pci4: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, wr/inv ok
mpt0 at pci4 dev 1 function 0: Symbios Logic 53c1030
mpt0: interrupting at ioapic1 pin 0 (irq 10)
scsibus0 at mpt0: 16 targets, 8 luns per target
uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0: Intel 6300ESB USB UHCI Controller (rev.
0x02)
uhci0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 16 (irq 10)
usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0
uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 1: Intel 6300ESB USB UHCI Controller (rev.
0x02)
uhci1: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 19 (irq 5)
usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1 at usb1
uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
Intel 6300ESB Watchdog Timer (miscellaneous system, revision 0x02) at pci0
dev 29 function 4 not configured
Intel 6300ESB Advanced Interrupt Controller (interrupt system, interface
0x20, revision 0x02) at pci0 dev 29 function 5 not configured
ppb4 at pci0 dev 30 function 0: Intel 82801BA Hub-PCI Bridge (rev. 0x0a)
pci5 at ppb4 bus 1
pci5: i/o space, memory space enabled
vga1 at pci5 dev 1 function 0: ATI Technologies Radeon 7000/VE QY (rev.
0x00)
wsdisplay0 at vga1 kbdmux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsmux1: connecting to wsdisplay0
pcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0
pcib0: Intel 6300ESB LPC Interface Bridge (rev. 0x02)
piixide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 1
piixide0: Intel 6300ESB IDE Controller (ICH5) (rev. 0x02)
piixide0: bus-master DMA support present, but unused (couldn't map
registers)
piixide0: primary channel configured to compatibility mode
piixide0: primary channel ignored (disabled)
piixide0: secondary channel configured to compatibility mode
piixide0: secondary channel ignored (disabled)
Intel 6300ESB SMBus Controller (SMBus serial bus, revision 0x02) at pci0 dev
31 function 3 not configured
isa0 at pcib0
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x64
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
kbc: aux echo error 2
kbc: cmd word write error
isapnp0 at isa0 port 0x279: ISA Plug 'n Play device support
isapnp0: no ISA Plug 'n Play devices found
ioapic0: enabling
ioapic1: enabling
ioapic2: enabling
ioapic3: enabling
timecounter: Timecounter "clockinterrupt" frequency 100 Hz quality 0
Kernelized RAIDframe activated
IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing.
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
uhub2 at uhub0 port 2
uhub2: Cypress Semiconductor 4 Port Hub, class 9/0, rev 1.10/0.01, addr 2
uhub2: 4 ports with 4 removable, bus powered
sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <LSILOGIC, 1030 IM       IM, 1000> disk
fixed
sd0: fabricating a geometry
sd0: 34678 MB, 34678 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 71020544 sectors
sd0: sync (6.25ns offset 63), 16-bit (320.000MB/s) transfers, tagged
queueing
uhidev0 at uhub2 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0
uhidev0: IBM PPC I/F, rev 1.10/0.01, addr 3, iclass 3/1
ukbd0 at uhidev0
wskbd1 at ukbd0 mux 1
wskbd1: connecting to wsdisplay0
uhidev1 at uhub2 port 1 configuration 1 interface 1
uhidev1: IBM PPC I/F, rev 1.10/0.01, addr 3, iclass 3/0
ums0 at uhidev1
ums0: X report 0x0002 not supported
uhidev2 at uhub2 port 3 configuration 1 interface 0
uhidev2: IBM HIDK/M, rev 1.10/0.01, addr 4, iclass 3/1
ukbd1 at uhidev2
wskbd2 at ukbd1 mux 1
wskbd2: connecting to wsdisplay0
uhidev3 at uhub2 port 3 configuration 1 interface 1
uhidev3: IBM HIDK/M, rev 1.10/0.01, addr 4, iclass 3/1
ums1 at uhidev3: 3 buttons and Z dir.
wsmouse0 at ums1 mux 0
sd0: fabricating a geometry
boot device: sd0
root on sd0a dumps on sd0b
root file system type: ffs
cpu1: CPU 1 running
wsdisplay0: screen 1 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 2 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 3 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 4 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)