Re: Weird: 30 sec delay during early boot

Jeff Garzik
2004-07-04T17:33:24Z

Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
>
>>This appeared in -bk-latest in the past day or two.
>>
>>BK-current on x86-64 (config/dmesg/lspci attached) will pause for 30
>>wall-clock seconds immediately after being loaded by the bootloader,
>>then will proceed to boot successfully and function correctly. This
>>is reproducible on every boot.
>>
>>So, 30 seconds with no printk output, then boots normally.
>>
>
>
> Search archives, there was something similar seen before.
> It was related to EDD, or some similar BIOS feature, IIRC.

Thank you for the hint!

I verified that changing CONFIG_EDD=y to '# CONFIG_EDD is not set'
removed the 30-second pause at boot.

This 30-second pause only appeared recently on my x86-64 box (VIA-based
Athlon64), so I'll bsearch changesets when I get a free moment (sometime
this week).

I wonder, even, if it is related to the bootsetup.h fix from Matt that I
forwarded recently.

Jeff