Re: Weird: 30 sec delay during early boot

Jeff Garzik
2004-07-04T02:53:13Z

Andi Kleen wrote:
> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> writes:
>
>
>>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.
>
>
> Boot with earlyprintk=serial,ttySx,baud or earlyprintk=vga
> That should enable printk from the beginning and may give
> some clues.

would early printk show something that dmesg(8) would not?

Jeff