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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Bill Rugolsky Jr." <brugolsky@telemetry-investments.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Long boot delay with 2.6 on Tyan S2464 Dual Athlon
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 17:02:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040511170238.36f9e5f3.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040511143514.GB27033@ti64.telemetry-investments.com>

"Bill Rugolsky Jr." <brugolsky@telemetry-investments.com> wrote:
>
> When booting 2.6 on a Tyan S2464 dual Athlon, the kernel pauses
> for about two minutes before the first boot message appears.
> This does not occur with 2.4 kernels.
> 
> The machine has a Matrox G450 AGP (which overrides the onboard ATI),
> a 3ware 7500 RAID controller, IDE on the motherboard, and 1GB of RAM.
> 
> I've tried numerous option combinations in both the BIOS and the
> kernel: MPS 1.1/1.4, (no-)SMP, acpi=off, pci=noacpi, noapic, nolapic,
> nousb, etc.

Can you try adding earlyprintk=vga?  That might help identify where it got
stuck.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-12  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-11 14:35 Long boot delay with 2.6 on Tyan S2464 Dual Athlon Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2004-05-12  0:02 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-05-12 12:30   ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
     [not found] <A6974D8E5F98D511BB910002A50A6647615FB091@hdsmsx403.hd.intel.com>
2004-05-11 17:01 ` Len Brown
2004-05-11 17:44   ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.

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