On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 16:01 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> I suspect these are totally innocent; the reason I think this is that
> select/poll only get used once you hit userspace... and you're hanging
> way before that.

Entirely correct. It seems commit
4403b406d4369a275d483ece6ddee0088cc0d592 by Linus just fixed it for me.
My boot hang is gone.

Linux prometheus 2.6.28-rc1-00005-g23cf24c #1 SMP Sun Oct 26 13:12:55
GMT 2008 x86_64 Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2354 AuthenticAMD
GNU/Linux

Regards,
Tony V.