From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750780AbVHLIA2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Aug 2005 04:00:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750783AbVHLIA2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Aug 2005 04:00:28 -0400 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.193]:58191 "EHLO rproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750780AbVHLIA2 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Aug 2005 04:00:28 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=hFcKXESmckSzInmNFD3A5VSlrY2/mSOI2sa8pKtQnV4wF9+j+/OuJgLhXajuFOFVahJBFOiSAar1x5ZgFCvKLAdRVXENUtp/US1GXK7o2Utg5yX8l7vdBlbZgKja874Tk83EUrXrMU1X+P0x2/A2xPeNoN6DzLHV9mnt1o8WOgg= Message-ID: <7f45d93905081201001a51d51b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 01:00:27 -0700 From: Shaun Jackman To: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112) Cc: lkml In-Reply-To: <42FC0DD4.9060905@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <7f45d939050809163136a234a@mail.gmail.com> <42FC0DD4.9060905@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 2005/8/11, Tejun Heo : > Shaun Jackman wrote: > > I added a PCI SATA controller to my computer. Immediately after grub > > loads the kernel there is a consistent ten minute delay before the > > kernel displays its first message. I tested Linux 2.6.8 and 2.6.11 > > both from Debian, and 2.6.11 from Knoppix, all of which experience the > > same delay. > > * What do you mean by the `first' message? ie. What's the first line > you read? > * Is it really ten minutes? Hello, Tejun. Thanks for the reply. The message displayed by the bootloader, grub, is... root (hd2,2) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11-1-k7 root=/dev/md0 ro nodma [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1600, size=0x122a667] initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.11-1-1-k7 [Linux-initrd @ 0x1fb29000, 0x4c6000 bytes] boot At this point there is a nine minute, fifteen second delay. As soon as the kernel starts printing messages it goes by quite fast, so I can't be certain what it's printing, but the first message according to dmesg is... Linux version 2.6.11-1-k7 (dannf@firetheft) (gcc version 3.3.6 (Debian 1:3.3.6-6 )) #1 Mon Jun 20 21:26:23 MDT 2005 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: ... Cheers, Shaun