9.2 Boot Problem

I put this out on Questions, but got no responses. Hopefully someone here h=
as some ideas.

FreeBSD 9.2.  All of my systems are hanging during boot right after the scr=
een that has the picture.  Its as if someone hit a space on the keyboard.  =
However, these systems have no keyboard.  If I plug one in, or use the seri=
al console, and enter a return, the boot continues properly.

The boot menu is displayed along with Beastie.  However, the line that says=
 Autoboot in n seconds=85 never appears.  It just stops there.  These are a=
ll new installs from CD systems.  I just used freebsd-update to take a toy =
server from 9.1 to 9.2 and it doesn't exhibit this behavior.  It boots prop=
erly.  I have updated one of the production servers with the latest 9.2 cha=
nges and it still has the issue.  I first thought that some config file did=
 not get updated properly on the CD.  I have dug around through the 4th fil=
es and don't see anything obvious that would cause this.  I have now verifi=
ed that all the 4th files in boot are identical (except for the version num=
ber.  They are slightly different).  I don't believe this is a BIOS setting=
 issue as FreeBSD 7.2 didn't exhibit this behavior.  All 4 systems are on t=
otally different motherboards.

I tried setting loader_logo=3D"none" in /boot/config.rc and that eliminated=
 the menu and Beastie.  I think the system completed booting, but the seria=
l console was then dead.  It did not respond or output anything.  I had to =
remove that and reboot to get the console back again.

I need to get this fixed as these are production servers that are essential=
ly unmanned so its difficult to get them back up again.  =

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