From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268329AbUG2QEL (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:04:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268330AbUG2QEK (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:04:10 -0400 Received: from linux.us.dell.com ([143.166.224.162]:17837 "EHLO lists.us.dell.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268352AbUG2QDn (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:03:43 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 11:02:18 -0500 From: Matt Domsch To: David Balazic Cc: Dave Jones , Andries Brouwer , Jeff Garzik , Pavel Machek , Linux Kernel , Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Weird: 30 sec delay during early boot Message-ID: <20040729160218.GA20901@lists.us.dell.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="azLHFNyN32YCQGCU" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 03:05:10PM +0200, David Balazic wrote: > > David, you had said before that by downgrading your BIOS you no longer > > saw the delay. Is this not still true? > >=20 > Still true, downgrading removes the delay. OK, then I'm inclined to believe it's a BIOS bug really... > > You also mentioned that Grub made different calls. I'll check that > > out too. > >=20 > Can you make a patch, that only accesses hd0 and hd1 ? Reduce the value of #define EDD_MBR_SIG_MAX 16 in include/linux/edd.h to whatever value you like, e.g. 2. > Or one which prints what is it doing, on each step ? > ( I tried this one myself, but it did not work :blush: , IA32 assembler > is not my strong side ) That's more PITA - it's in real mode, before anything's ever been printed. I'd prefer not to have to figure that out if I can avoid it. Thanks, Matt --=20 Matt Domsch Sr. Software Engineer, Lead Engineer Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBCR+KIavu95Lw/AkRAt4tAJ9CYLmsy2+3JAdG/wiEIS9IkAXmRQCgjfig /1wTFQ7iYPUTtW3B4od5ayI= =PJEd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU--