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FreeBSD boots painfully slow on new servers with Intels Nehalem chipsets. You don't want to wait 180 seconds and more? Here's the solution, just add these two lines to your /boot/loader.conf and the boot time will significantly decrease:
hint.atkbdc.0.disabled="1"
hint.atkbd.0.disabled="1"
The reason is that FreeBSD tries to find and initialize a PS/2 keyboard where no PS/2 is in the system at all.